Global Royalty Trading SAL claims Rosmah has “failed to return or pay the US$14.57 million cost of the jewellery”.
The company also said there was no necessity for a full trial of the case as Rosmah, the wife of former prime minister Najib Razak, has not been able to put forward a “meritorious defence” to the case.
“Her defence is clearly unsustainable in law or on the facts, averting the need for a full trial,” it said in its summary judgment application.
In her defence, Rosmah had contended that the company had no reasonable cause of action against her.
She also claimed the suit had been filed in the wrong jurisdiction and ought to have been brought in a New York court since Global Royalty was relying on a primary document which originated from there.
In the suit filed in March, the jeweller said it had shipped 43 items of jewellery to Rosmah in February 2018, but they were not among those confiscated by the police in a raid conducted three months later.
The suit is the second filed by Global Royalty Trading over the claim.
An earlier action was filed on June 26, 2018, but was withdrawn in October 2019 following the government’s seizure of multiple valuable items, including jewellery, watches and handbags as well as cash in raids on several properties, including Rosmah’s house at Jalan Duta.
The jeweller took part in the forfeiture proceedings as a third-party claimant.
In its original suit, Global Royalty Tradingclaimed that on Feb 10, 2018, it had sent 44 items of jewellery, including diamond necklaces, earrings, rings, bracelets and tiaras, each worth between US$124,000 (RM519,183) and US$925,000 (RM3.8 million), to Rosmah.
It said they were hand-delivered by two of its agents.
The company claimed Rosmah had, in a letter dated May 22, 2018, acknowledged receipt of the items.
However, Rosmah claimed the jewellery was no longer in her possession because it had been seized by the authorities.
In 2019, the prosecution filed a forfeiture application against Obyu Holdings to seize various items, including 11,991 units of jewellery, 401 watch straps and 16 watch accessories, 234 pairs of spectacles and 306 handbags as well as cash in various denominations amounting to RM114,164,393.44.
Of the jewellery seized during the raid, Global Royalty Trading said it found a diamond bracelet worth US$220,000 (RM1.01 million), which it claimed was part of the consignment. The remaining 43 items remain unaccounted for.
Last November, the government failed in its bid to seize the jewellery items after the High Court dismissed the application.
They were returned to Rosmah following the prosecution’s failure to show the items were purchased from proceeds of unlawful activities related to 1MDB.
The government did not appeal the decision.