KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 17 — The group of individuals claiming to be the heirs of the Sultan of Sulu are trying to distort the truth in a dispute relating to Sabah, minister Datuk Seri...
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 17 — The group of individuals claiming to be the heirs of the Sultan of Sulu are trying to distort the truth in a dispute relating to Sabah, minister Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said said today.
"This case concerns a genuine arbitral scandal that has undermined the two most fundamental institutions of the rule of law: respecting the law and obeying the courts, and Malaysia will spare no effort in defending its rights," the minister in charge of law and institutional reform said in a statement today.
While casting doubt on the purported new seizure bid, Azalina pointed out that the alleged Sulu heirs had already failed in their previous first attempt to seize Petronas's assets in Luxembourg. "Rather, this alleged new attempt to attach assets would follow a first and failed attachment, which the Luxembourg courts recently lifted," she said, referring to the previously failed seizure order according to its legal term"attachment".
Last February 28, Stampa gave his purported arbitration award — or"final award" — by ordering Malaysia to pay US$14.92 billion in compensation to eight individuals who claimed to be the heirs of the now-defunct Sulu Sultanate. Azalina had also explained the District Court of Luxembourg's decision to lift the July 11, 2022 seizure order on Petronas assets was due to the Sulu claimants' failure to reveal their real addresses which would hamper documents being served on them and enforcement of any potential judgment against them.
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