KUALA LUMPUR: The widow and four children of former minister Tan Sri Dr Jamaludin Jarjis plan to file a preliminary objection against his mother’s application to obtain the faraid certificate on his estate, which is estimated to be worth more than RM2 billion.
Syarie lawyer Kamar Ainiah Kamaruzaman said the preliminary objection, which will be filed by Jamaludin’s widow, Puan Sri Dr Kalsom Ismail, 62, and their four children – Ikwan Hafiz, 31, Nur Anis, 33, Nurul Alyaa, 27, and Noor Adilla, 23, – is aimed at striking out the application filed by his mother, Aminah Abdullah, 84, on March 2.
“The next case management is set for Oct 15,” she said after the case management proceeding before Syariah High Court registrar Siti Zulaiha Mohamad Mansor in chambers yesterday.
Kamar Ainiah, who represented Aminah, said the court also allowed the widow and children’s application to be the intervenors in Aminah’s application to obtain the faraid certificate.
Also present at the proceeding were syarie lawyers Datuk Shamsuriah Sulaiman and Zuri Zabuddin Budiman, representing Kalsom and her children.
Aminah had filed the application to determine the division of the estate, left by the former Rompin Member of Parliament, amongst those that have rights to it.
The estate includes 20 properties in Malaysia, the United States and Saudi Arabia, as well as several companies.
Jamaluddin, who was a former Malaysian Ambassador to the United States, was killed on April 4, 2015 when the helicopter he was travelling in from Pekan, Pahang, en route to Kuala Lumpur, crashed in Kampung Sungai Pening, Semenyih, Selangor.
Also killed in the crash 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.