Aminah Abdullah (above), the mother of late minister Jamaluddin Jarjis, has partly won her suit against her two grandchildren over alleged non-disclosure that the duo are trustees of their father’s estate in owning shares in three companies.
Through online proceedings this afternoon, the Kuala Lumpur High Court allowed the plaintiff’s application for declaration that the shares of company Rantai Wawasan are part of Jamaluddin’s estate.
However, judge Mohd Firuz Jaffril did not allow Aminah’s application for declaration that the shares of Alpine Motion and Ivory Heights are part of the late minister’s estate.
The said shares in all three companies are worth over RM1.3 billion.
The outcome of today’s proceedings were confirmed by the plaintiff’s lawyer Kamar Ainiah Kamaruzzaman.
The two defendants’ counsel, Rodney Gan, also confirmed Firuz’ decision, adding that the court ordered his clients to pay RM80,000 in costs.
Aminah, 84, named Nur Anis Jamaluddin and Ikwan Hafiz Jamaluddin as defendants in the suit, where the duo are alleged to have jointly owned three million shares in Rantai Wawasan Sdn Bhd, six million shares in Alpine Motion Sdn Bhd, and two Ivory Insights Sdn Bhd shares.
The suit was filed by Messrs Wan Marican, Hamzah & Shaik at the Kuala Lumpur High Court (Civil Jurisdiction) on Jan 3, 2019.
This legal action was in addition to Aminah’s faraid (inheritance) claim to the portion of the RM2.1 billion estate she had filed at the Kuala Lumpur Syariah High Court in 2018, which is still pending.
Before the Kuala Lumpur High Court, she also has another legal action against her two grandchildren over alleged fraud committed against her during the administration of the deceased’s assets.
Jamaluddin was former Rompin MP, and held various posts in the Barisan Nasional cabinet, including as the second finance minister, science, technology and innovation minister, and Malaysian ambassador to the United States. He was also the Tenaga Nasional Bhd chairperson.
He was killed in a helicopter crash on April 4, 2015. According to the 117-page report released by the Malaysia Air Accident Investigation Bureau, pilot negligence was behind the incident.
In her statement of claim, Aminah is seeking declarations that she, as the lawful mother, and beneficiary of Jamaluddin’s estate, has an interest in the estate in terms of the said shares and that the joint administrators of the estate amend by way of a court list of the movable assets as follows:
- Three million Rantai Wawasan shares worth RM1.044 billion
- Six million Alpine Motion shares worth RM233 million, and
- Two Ivory Insights shares worth RM80 million.
She claimed that as Jamaluddin’s mother, she was entitled to one-sixth of the estate.
Aminah, in her statement of claim, listed Rantai Wawasan as a management consultancy company incorporated in 1982, wherein the 1990s, it was part of a three-member consortium to privatise Lembaga Kemajuan Tenggara.
Alpine Motion is an investment holding company formed in 2013, and Ivory Insights is an investment holding company incorporated in 2012.
She claimed that her son had been involved in business for a long time when he set up an engineering consultancy firm J and A Associates, and by 1986, Jamaluddin had taken over EPE Power Sdn Bhd that manufactured electrical and power equipment switch gears.
Aminah claimed that her two grandchildren had obtained the grant of letters of administration from Jamaluddin’s estate, making them joint administrators of the deceased's assets that included the shares mentioned above, two years ago.
She further claimed that Jamaluddin did not own shares in his name, as he was holding various government and political appointments prior to his death in 2015.
This was because ministers cannot be involved in business, and disclosure of business interests would lead to public criticism. - Mkini
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