KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 15 — The half-brother of former minister the late Tan Sri J told the High Court here today that two of his brother’s children were never involved in all three of the Rompin Member of Parliament’s companies until he died in 2015.
He said that during examination-in-chief by lawyer Pawancheek Marican, representing Jamaluddin’s mother Aminah Abdullah in her suit against her two grandchildren over their failure to include three company shares worth RM1.3 billion in the list of her son’s estate. The witness said, “I only agree to the extent that defendants held 100 per cent as registered shareholders of the shares in Rantai Wawasan without having beneficial ownership of these shares which had always remained withOn the corporate ownership changes made by the defendants after they held the shares in Rantai Wawasan, Mohamad Najeb said it was against the nature of his half-brother’s close relationship with his mother who was excluded from the plan.
Aminah, 85, who filed the suit on January 3, claimed Nur Anis, 34, and Ikwan Hafiz, 32, as joint administrators of Jamaluddin’s estate, had failed to include the three company shares as inheritance in the list of assets in the letter of administration when Jamaluddin died on April 4, 2015, and also failed to enter the shares as a liability since July 6, 2017.