PUTRAJAYA, Sept 29 — With her husband Dr Mohamad Khir Toyo sent to jail for a year, the wife of the former Selangor mentri besar may now fight for her share of the land that the Federal Court has ordered seized, lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah said.

Shafee, who was the lead counsel representing Mohamad Khir, also said that the multi-million land is still under a charge to the bank.

“It is subject to forfeiture, how fast is the forfeiture, I am not certain, I suppose it is going to be protracted because the bank is on the other hand there and the wife owns half of the share,” he told reporters here after the Federal Court decided to uphold the one-year jail term and property seizure in his client’s corruption case.

“And there is also a possibility of the wife putting in a claim over the house to challenge this decision, so it will be a collateral proceeding.

“In short, today is not the end of this case,” he added.

Earlier today, a five-man panel at the Federal Court unanimously upheld the one-year jail term previously meted out to Dr Mohamad Khir Toyo, also maintaining the forfeiture of the land that he had underpaid for back in 2007.

Last Tuesday, the Federal Court panel ruled that the offence was proven beyond reasonable doubt when it unanimously upheld Mohamad Khir’s previous conviction under Section 165 of the Penal Code, which comes with a maximum two-year jail term or fine or both.

On December 23, 2011, the Shah Alam High Court convicted Mohamad Khir of corruptly using his position as then Selangor MB and Selangor State Development Corporation (PKNS) chairman to obtain land and property below the market price in 2007.

He was given a 12-month jail sentence after being found guilty of obtaining two plots of land and a bungalow in Section 7, Shah Alam for himself and his wife Zahrah Kechik, from Ditamas Sdn Bhd through its director Datuk Shamsuddin Hayroni with the inadequate payment of RM3.5 million in 2007.

He was charged with knowingly obtaining a valuable thing as a public servant without paying adequate consideration for the property that Ditamas had itself purchased at RM6.5 million in December 2004, and doing so with the knowledge that Shamsuddin had official dealings with him.

On May 30, 2013, Mohamad Khir lost his appeal at the Court of Appeal against his conviction and one-year jail term.