KUALA LUMPUR: French bailiffs have attempted to enforce a seizure order on three Paris properties owned by the Malaysian Government there following a bid by descendants of a former sultanate to enforce a US$15bil (RM66bil) award they had won against Malaysia.
Reuters reported that the bailiffs tried to assess the properties on Monday following a court-issued seizure order in December 2022 but Malaysian officials at the Paris embassy turned them away.
Despite the stay, a French judge in December 2022 granted the heirs' request to seize three Malaysian Government properties in Paris to settle a debt of €2.3mil that they said was owed to them, according to court documents shared by the heirs' lawyers to Reuters. Unlike the embassy, they bore no official signage and were not subject to French tax exemptions, the judge said.
The Malaysian Government and the French court, the Tribunal Judiciaire de Paris, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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