KUALA LUMPUR (ANN/THE STAR) – Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor has agreed to preserve her luxury items amid a USD346 million lawsuit filed by 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) against her. This commitment was made through her lawyers, Reza Rahim and Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, during a Zoom proceeding on Friday. The court recorded this ad interim injunction after 1MDB, represented by lawyer Datuk Lim Chee Wee, agreed to the undertaking.
The proceeding, presided over by Judicial Commissioner Adlin Abdul Majid, involved an application for a Mareva injunction. This temporary order prevents the defendant from disposing of assets until the case is resolved. The case is now scheduled for case management on July 4.
Earlier, 1MDB applied to freeze 11,991 pieces of jewellery, more than 400 luxury handbags and more than 300 watches that were said to be in Rosmah’s control. Some of the items in the list are a yellow diamond necklace (USD1.77mil or MYR8.
35mil at current rates), pink diamond bracelet (USD1.2mil) and butterfly-shaped diamond ring (USD1.05mil).
Also listed were two Hermes handbags; Hermes Rose Amethyste Croco Horse Shoe Special Order (USD130,000) and Hermes White with Gray Croco Skin (MYR2mil) and a Cecil Purnell Ti watch (MYR1mil). All of the disputed assets said to be in the possession and control of Rosmah were listed in a 612-page appendix. Muhammad Shafee, however, asked that the injunction not be made solely based on the appendix as the defendant needed to verify whe.
