PARIS — France's highest civil court on Wednesday (Nov 6) rejected an appeal by the heirs of a former sultan who sought nearly US$15 billion (S$19.9 billion) from Malaysia's government, drawing a line under a lengthy legal battle stemming from an 1878 land deal.
France's highest civil court rejected an appeal by the heirs of a former sultan who sought nearly US$15 billion from Malaysia's government, Malaysia's law minister Azalina Othman Said said the ruling would "definitively settle the matter in favour of the Malaysian people"PARIS — France's highest civil court on Wednesday rejected an appeal by the heirs of a former sultan who sought nearly US$15 billion from Malaysia's government, drawing a line under a lengthy legal...
Malaysia had been left stunned when the Filipino heirs of the last Sultan of Sulu won a US$14.9 billion award in a French arbitration court in 2022, prompting them to go after Malaysian assets. The 1878 deal signed between European colonists and the Sultan of Sulu for use of his territory, which spanned islands in the southern Philippines and parts of present-day Malaysia on Borneo island.
The heirs have maintained they had no involvement in the incursion and sought arbitration over the suspension of the payments.
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