JJ’s children strike out grandma’s suit over interim distribution of assets
The High Court judge also ordered Aminah Abdullah to pay RM15,000 in costs each to Jamaluddin Jarjis’ two children.
KUALA LUMPUR: The late Jamaluddin Jarjis’ two children have succeeded in striking out a RM21 million suit filed by their grandmother Aminah Abdullah for interim distribution of the former minister’s money in various bank accounts.
This follows a High Court ruling by judge Hayatul Akmal Abdul Aziz in favour of Ikhwan Hafiz Jamaluddin and his sister Nur Anis to annul the suit on grounds that the matter was already litigated in another case.
Hayatul said the facts in the present suit were similar to those before another High Court judge, Firuz Jaffril.
Lawyer K Shanmuga, who appeared for Ikhwan with Malik Imtiaz Sarwar, said Hayatul held that the filing of this fresh suit was oppressive to the grandchildren and an abuse of process.
U Sashiraj and Louis Ambrose appeared for Nur Anis.
Hayatul, who delivered the ruling via an online proceeding, also ordered Aminah to pay RM15,000 in costs each to both her grandchildren.
Lawyer Pawancheek Marican and Wan Zafran Pawancheek represented Aminah, 88.
She filed the suit last year, claiming that the grandchildren had control of the money deposited in Jamaluddin’s local and overseas accounts.
Last August, Firuz granted a declaration to Aminah that three million shares worth RM1.044 billion in Rantai Wawasan Sdn Bhd were part of her son’s estate, to which she was entitled as a beneficiary.
However, the judge denied two other claims by Aminah involving shares worth RM313 million in Alpine Motion Sdn Bhd and Ivory Insights Sdn Bhd, which he held did not form part of Jamaluddin’s estate.
Both parties have appealed on parts of the decision.
Aminah is also embroiled in a civil suit in the Kuala Lumpur shariah high court to obtain her share of RM1 billion from her daughter-in-law Kalsom Ismail.
Kalsom, a former dentist, filed the suit in early 2018 to get 50% of Jamaluddin’s moveable and immovable properties acquired here and overseas valued at RM2.1 billion from the deceased’s estate.
However, Aminah is opposing the suit, claiming that most of the assets were accumulated before her son married Kalsom.
Under shariah law, the mother gets one-sixth of the estate’s assets, the wife gets one-eighth and the remainder is shared among the children.
Mediation over the assets left by Jamaluddin, who also served as Malaysian ambassador to the US, failed in 2019.
Jamaluddin was killed on April 4, 2015, when the helicopter he was travelling in from Pekan, Pahang, to Kuala Lumpur crashed in Kampung Sungai Pening, Semenyih, Selangor.
Jamaluddin was an Umno Supreme Council member and the Rompin MP from 1990 until his death.
KUALA LUMPUR: The late Jamaluddin Jarjis’ two children have succeeded in striking out a RM21 million suit filed by their grandmother Aminah Abdullah for interim distribution of the former minister’s money in various bank accounts.
This follows a High Court ruling by judge Hayatul Akmal Abdul Aziz in favour of Ikhwan Hafiz Jamaluddin and his sister Nur Anis to annul the suit on grounds that the matter was already litigated in another case.
Hayatul said the facts in the present suit were similar to those before another High Court judge, Firuz Jaffril.
Lawyer K Shanmuga, who appeared for Ikhwan with Malik Imtiaz Sarwar, said Hayatul held that the filing of this fresh suit was oppressive to the grandchildren and an abuse of process.
U Sashiraj and Louis Ambrose appeared for Nur Anis.
Hayatul, who delivered the ruling via an online proceeding, also ordered Aminah to pay RM15,000 in costs each to both her grandchildren.
Lawyer Pawancheek Marican and Wan Zafran Pawancheek represented Aminah, 88.
She filed the suit last year, claiming that the grandchildren had control of the money deposited in Jamaluddin’s local and overseas accounts.
Last August, Firuz granted a declaration to Aminah that three million shares worth RM1.044 billion in Rantai Wawasan Sdn Bhd were part of her son’s estate, to which she was entitled as a beneficiary.
However, the judge denied two other claims by Aminah involving shares worth RM313 million in Alpine Motion Sdn Bhd and Ivory Insights Sdn Bhd, which he held did not form part of Jamaluddin’s estate.
Both parties have appealed on parts of the decision.
Aminah is also embroiled in a civil suit in the Kuala Lumpur shariah high court to obtain her share of RM1 billion from her daughter-in-law Kalsom Ismail.
Kalsom, a former dentist, filed the suit in early 2018 to get 50% of Jamaluddin’s moveable and immovable properties acquired here and overseas valued at RM2.1 billion from the deceased’s estate.
However, Aminah is opposing the suit, claiming that most of the assets were accumulated before her son married Kalsom.
Under shariah law, the mother gets one-sixth of the estate’s assets, the wife gets one-eighth and the remainder is shared among the children.
Mediation over the assets left by Jamaluddin, who also served as Malaysian ambassador to the US, failed in 2019.
Jamaluddin was killed on April 4, 2015, when the helicopter he was travelling in from Pekan, Pahang, to Kuala Lumpur crashed in Kampung Sungai Pening, Semenyih, Selangor.
Jamaluddin was an Umno Supreme Council member and the Rompin MP from 1990 until his death.
All these assets r ill-gotten from the blur-ness melayu.
ReplyDeleteThe state should have confiscated them all!
There are still suspicions that a large chunk of JJ's assets are actually secret proxies , held on behalf of Senior UMNO figures who want to hide their real dirty money wealth.
ReplyDeleteThis seriously complicates the struggle over the distribution of his assets.