RM2.1 BILLION FORTUNE – HOW DID NAJIB’S LATE STRATEGIST JAMALUDDIN JARJIS MAKE SO MUCH MONEY? MALAYSIANS IN SHOCK AS MOTHER OF EX-MINISTER SUES FOR A SHARE OF HIS ESTATE

The 83-year old mother of the late minister Jamaluddin Jarjis is seeking her share of her late son’s estate, which is said to be worth at least RM2.1 billion.

Aminah Abdullah, who now resides in Setiawangsa, Kuala Lumpur, wants the Syariah Court to issue a faraid (Islamic wealth distribution) certificate for this in the petition she filed in March this year.

This is for the court to recognise that she is one of the rightful claimants, along with Jamaluddin’s widow and her four children, to the said assets. This is to ensure that the total assets are rightly distributed.

Aminah in her petition listed the landed properties, including houses in Malaysia and also in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, and in the United States, as well as a list of assets that included shares owned by the late minister, and those that were purportedly given to her grandchildren, as part of the estate.

The assets comprise 22 landed properties, mostly in Pahang and in the Klang Valley, 21 bank accounts with a total sum of more than RM15 million, including one account in the United States, and shares in 15 companies.

Under Islamic law, if a deceased does not have a will, the mother is entitled to receive one-sixth of the deceased person’s estate, while his widow gets one-eighth and the children are to receive the remainder.

The matter came up for case management at the Syariah High Court in Kuala Lumpur today. Aminah is represented by senior lawyer Kamar Ainiah Kamaruzzaman (photo, pushing the wheelchair).

Aminah was married to Jamaluddin’s father, who was formerly the Pahang police chief, before their divorce in 1954.

Upon her divorce, Aminah raised Jamaluddin on her own before she re-married another man and had two children with him.

Today, Aminah, who is wheelchair bound, came with her son Mohamed Najeb Ali and her daughter.

Kamar Ainiah told reporters they met the Syariah High Court registrar along with lawyer Zuri Zabuddin Budiman, who represented Jamaluddin’s widow Kalsom Ismail and her children.

The widow and her children applied to intervene in Aminah’s application, which was not objected to by Kamar Ainiah.

Following that, they were given intervener status.

The Syariah High Court then fixed Sept 13 for further case management.

Jamaluddin, the former Rompin MP, was said to be a close confidante of former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak and had held various cabinet posts.

He and several others, including Najib’s principal private secretary Azlin Alias, died in a helicopter crash on April 4, 2015.

The report on the investigation into the helicopter crash said it was the result of pilot negligence.

This is reputedly one of the largest claim for faraid in Shariah history as it surpasses the amount in the case of the late businessmen Syed Kechik Syed Mohamed as well as SM Nasimuddin Kamal SM Amin of the Naza Group.

MKINI