KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 13 — The late Dutch model Ivana Smit’s family has decided to not continue pursuing a lawsuit against the Malaysian government at the Federal Court over alleged negligence in a probe of her 2017 death, the family’s lawyer Datuk Sankara Nair confirmed today.
This brings Smit’s family’s six-year legal bid in court to an end, but Sankara said the authorities should continue to investigate her death and to regularly communicate with her family.
“Ivana’s family has decided not to seek leave to appeal to the Federal Court against the Court of Appeal’s decision of October 14, 2026. Accordingly, these civil proceedings have come to an end.
“Their decision deserves respect and should not be understood as satisfaction with the investigation or acceptance that their concerns have been answered,” he said in a statement today.
