KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 7 — Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Jamil Khir Baharom today succeeded in his application to strike out a suit filed by a Yayasan Pembangunan Anak Yatim/Miskin (Pemangkin) for alleged misconduct and efforts to shut down the foundation.
Lawyer Adnan Seman, representing Jamil Khir, told the media that High Court Judicial Commissioner Datuk Faizah Jamaludin struck out the suit in chambers in the presence of lawyer Datuk Suhaimi Kamaruddin, who represented the three plaintiffs named in the suit.
The plaintiffs are the foundation founders, Datuk Mohd Yusoff A. Bakar, 65, and Ahmad Fazil Hashim, 61, and Pemangkin.
Adnan said the court struck out the suit on grounds that the writ of summons and the statement of claims did not state a reasonable clause of action, an embarrassment, petty and an abuse of the court process.
The court also ordered the plaintiffs to pay cost of RM2,000 to Jamil Khir, who was named the first defendant in the suit, he said.
Others named as defendants in the suit were members of Pemangkin Board of Trustees, comprising Datuk Shahlan Ismail, 59; Mohd Yusof Abd Rahman, 62 andMokhtar Abdul Razak, 59; Director-General-cum- Chief Executive officer of Malaysian Islamic Economic Development Foundation (Yapeim) Datuk Abibullah Samsudin, 58; Yapiem legal director Sharina Ramli, former company secretary Normala Embi, 54, and Yapeim.
The same court had struck out the suit against the seven defendants on November 10 last year.
In the statement of claim, the plaintiffs had sought a declaration that Pemangkin was an entity on its own and not a subsidiary of any company or foundation or establishment, includingYapeim.
They had also sought a declaration that instructions and action by Jamil Khir and the seven other defendants to make Pemangkin a dormant company was illegal, and also a declaration that the appointment of Abibullah as Yapeim chief executive officer was null and void. — Bernama
