KUALA LUMPUR: The mother of the late former minister Tan Sri Dr Jamaluddin Jarjis has filed a lawsuit seeking a share of her late son’s properties worth at least RM2.1 billion.
Aminah Abdullah who filed the suit on March 2 at the Syariah Court is also seeking the court to issue the Islamic wealth distribution (faraid) certificate for this matter.
The 83-year-old mother has listed various assets belong to the former Rompin member of parliament, including 22 landed properties in Pahang and Kuala Lumpur, 21 bank accounts with a total of more than RM15 million, several properties in the United States of America and Mecca, as well as a company he owned.
Under the shariah, the mother gets one-sixth of the estate’s assets, the wife gets one-eighth and the remainder is shared among the children.
Aminah in her application named Jamaluddin’s widow Dr Kalsom Ismail, 62, and their children - Nur Anis, 33; Ikhwan Hafiz, 31; Nurul Aliyaa 27; and Noor Adilla, 23 - as the next of kin.
The matter came up for case management before Syariah High Court registrar Siti Zulaiha Mohamad Mansor today but it was postponed to Sept 13 for further case management.
Outside the court Aminah’s counsel Kamar Ainiah told reporters that Kalsom and her children, through counsel Zuri Zabuddin Budiman, had applied to become interveners in the application.
She said her client had no objection if other heirs wished to intervene.
Aminah who was in a wheel chair was accompanied by Jamaluddin’s brother Mohamad Najeb Ali.
She was divorced from Jamaluddin’s father, former Pahang police chief, in 1954.
Jamaluddin fondly known as JJ, was a confidant of former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.
He was the Malaysian envoy to the US and also served as chairman of the 1Malaysia People’s Housing Programme.
Jamaluddin was killed on April 4, 2015 after the helicopter he was travelling in crashed at Kampung Sungai Pening, Semenyih, Selangor.
In the incident, the helicopter ferrying six was said to have exploded mid-air before crashing in a rubber estate.