Court lifts stay order on amending list of assets of ex-minister Jamaluddin

Court lifts stay order on amending list of assets of ex-minister Jamaluddin

Court of Appeal fixes March 14 to hear appeals by both Jamaluddin Jarjis’ mother and his children.

Aminah Abdullah, the mother of the late Jamaluddin Jarjis, had won a suit against her two grandchildren in 2019 over their failure to include three companies’ shares, worth RM1.3 billion, in the list of her son’s estate.
PUTRAJAYA:
The Court of Appeal has set aside a stay order obtained by the children of the late Jamaluddin Jarjis preventing their grandmother from amending the list of assets in the estate of their father.

Lawyer Wan Zafran Pawancheek said a three-member bench chaired by Yaacob Md Sam allowed the appeal by Aminah Abdullah, 87, pending the disposal of the main appeal scheduled for March 14.

The other members of the bench were Supang Lian and Mohd Nazlan Ghazali.

Zafran said the bench, which delivered the ruling after an online proceeding, also ordered costs of RM10,000 to Aminah.

On Sept 20 , High Court judge Mohd Firuz Jaffril allowed the stay filed by Jamaluddin’s children, Ikhwan Hafiz and Nur Anis.

They wanted Aminah to be prevented from amending the list of assets in the estate of their father and to stop the accounts of Rantai Wawasan Sdn Bhd from being filed in court.

Rantai Wawasan, which Jamaluddin acquired in 2012, has among its assets an independent power utility, Nur Power, in Kulim, Kedah.

Ikhwan Hafiz is both director and managing director of Nur Power, while Nur Anis is a director.

On Aug 13, Aminah partly won her suit to include three million shares in Rantai Wawasan in the list of her son’s estate.

However, the High Court dismissed her suit to include six million shares in Alpine Motion Sdn Bhd and two shares in Ivory Insight Sdn Bhd, which also formed part of the estate of her late son.

Aminah in 2019 filed the suit against her two grandchildren over their failure to include the three companies’ shares, worth RM1.3 billion, in the list of her son’s estate.

Aminah and the grandchildren’s appeals will be heard (by the Court of Appeal) on March 14.

Jamaluddin, a former minister and ambassador to the US, was killed on April 4, 2015, when the helicopter he was travelling in from Pekan, Pahang, crashed en route to Kuala Lumpur in Kampung Sungai Pening, Semenyih, Selangor.

Aminah is also embroiled in a legal tussle with her daughter-in-law Kalsom Ismail to obtain her share of RM1 billion in jointly acquired matrimonial assets.

Kalsom, a former dentist, wants 50% of Jamaluddin’s moveable and immovable properties acquired here and overseas from the deceased’s estate.

However, Aminah is objecting as most of the assets were accumulated before her son married Kalsom.

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