PUTRAJAYA, Nov 12 — The Court of Appeal today allowed 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) and related companies to admit an affidavit by a Singaporean woman in support of their bid to freeze Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor’s assets in a lawsuit involving luxury goods worth more than US$346 million (RM1.41 billion).
The three-member bench comprising Datuk Dr Alwi Abdul Wahab, Datuk Ismail Berahim and Datuk Leonard David Shim unanimously allowed the appeal, setting aside the High Court’s decision, with costs of RM30,000.
Delivering the decision, Shim said the High Court had applied the wrong legal principle in rejecting the companies’ application to admit the affidavit by Shabnam Naraindas Daswani.
“After reviewing the appeal records, the High Court’s grounds of judgment, the memorandum of appeal and submissions from both parties, we unanimously find that the High Court judge had applied the wrong principle in dismissing the appellants’ application for leave.
