KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 10): Umno on Wednesday (Nov 10) failed to strike out a RM16 million suit filed by SRC International Sdn Bhd. This follows High Court Judicial Commissioner Quay Chew Soon dismissing the Malay nationalist party's striking out application. On the other hand, Quay allowed SRC to amend its statement of claim as it contended that an amendment to accurately name parties should be allowed and the earlier inaccuracy in not naming the public officer can be cured by wa

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 8): Saudi national Tarek Obaid, who runs PetroSaudi International Ltd and PetroSaudi Holdings (Cayman) Ltd, has appointed Messrs Chong + Kheng Hoe to represent him in the US$1.83 billion suit filed by 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) against him, his companies and several foreign financial institutions. Besides this, as reported in The Edge weekly, PetroSaudi International and PetroSaudi Holdings have appointed Messrs Wong Kian Kheong to represent them. Lawy

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 1): A judgment in default has been entered against SRC International Sdn Bhd's former CEO Nik Faisal Ariff Kamil, who is reported to be at large, in the company's US$1.18 billion (RM4 billion) suit against him and several others, including former premier Datuk Seri Najib Razak. The order was granted by High Court deputy registrar Suriani Ujang on Monday when the case was called up for case management for substitute service. This was confirmed by multiple sou

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 28): 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) was told to file by Nov 18 its amended writ and statement of claim in its US$6.59 billion suit against its former president and CEO Arul Kanda Kandasamy and former Treasury secretary-general Tan Sri Mohd Irwan Serigar Abdullah over the Brazen Sky and International Petroleum Investment Corporation (IPIC) transactions. The directive was made by High Court senior assistant registrar Syeela Marlina Uttaman following case man

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 21): The High Court has fixed Nov 26 to deliver its decision on Umno Supreme Council member Datuk Dr Mohd Puad Zarkashi’s bid to set aside the interim injunction obtained against him by former prime minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin. The ex-parte interim injunction, granted by Justice Datuk Mohd Firuz Jaffril on March 1, restrains Puad from posting, publishing or repeating alleged defamatory words from his Facebook post titled “There are two levels of quaran