KUALA LUMPUR – The shariah high court here has set tomorrow for parties in the claim for matrimonial property worth RM2 billion filed by Puan Sri Kalsom Ismail, who is Tan Sri Jamaludin Jarjis’ widow, against her four children and mother-in-law to inform the status of their out of court settlement discussion.
The four children named defendants in the claim are Ikwan Hafiz, Nur Anis, Nurul Alyaa and Noor Adilla. The other defendant is Jamaludin’s mother, Aminah Abdullah.
Sharie judge Abdul Shukor Abd Hamid fixed tomorrow for the matter following an application by sharie lawyer Nor Husniah Husin, representing Kalsom, to postpone today’s proceedings.
Earlier, Nor Husniah informed the court that the main lawyer representing Kalsom, Datuk Sulaiman Abdullah, could not attend the court proceeding today as he was attending a meeting at the Malaysian Shariah Judiciary Department in Putrajaya.
She said the matter had been informed to the court through a letter dated April 18.
Meanwhile, Aminah’s lawyer Nur Hidayah A. Bakar, when met by reporters, said she objected to the postponement.
“The court allowed today’s proceeding to be postponed and ordered parties to appear in court at 2.30pm tomorrow to inform the status of the discussion on the settlement of the case,” he said.
Kalsom, 66, filed the claim for the matrimonial property, which included 20 properties in Malaysia, Mecca and several companies in October 2018 against her four children and mother-in-law.
On August 28 last year, the same court allowed an application by Kalsom to amend her suit, involving real estate in Boston, USA, to be removed from the statement of claim.
Apart from that, the amendment also concerned shares in the Rantai Wawasan Sdn Bhd, the issue of indirect contributions related to the care of Jamaludin when he was suffering from leg pain and issues related to land in Selangor.
Jamaludin, also the former Malaysian Ambassador to the United States, was killed on April 4, 2015, after the helicopter he was travelling in from Pekan, Pahang, en route to Kuala Lumpur, crashed at Kg Sg Pening, Semenyih, Selangor, at 4.55 pm.
Also killed were the pilot, Captain Clifford William Fournier, former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s private secretary Datuk Seri Azlin Alias, businessman Datuk Tan Huat Seang, Jamaludin’s personal aide Razakan Seran and a woman known as Aidana Baizieva. – Bernama, May 2, 2023
