Widow, kids allowed to intervene in mum’s claim

KUALA LUMPUR: The widow and four children of Tan Sri Dr Jamaluddin Jarjis, who died in a helicopter crash three years ago, will submit a preliminary objection to strike out an application made by Jamaluddin’s mother to obtain an Islamic wealth distribution (faraid) certificate over the division of his property, valued at around RM2 billion.

This was announced by lawyer Kamar Ainiah Kamaruzaman, representing Jamaluddin’s mother, Aminah Abdullah, 84, after case management in front of the Syariah High Court registrar Siti Zulaiha Mohamad Mansor.

She said for the application, Jamaludin’s widow, Puan Sri Dr Kalsom Ismail, 62, was represented by lawyer Datuk Shamsuriah Sulaiman. Their four children — Nur Anis, 33, Ikhwan Hafiz, 31, Nurul Alyaa, 27, and Noor Adilla, 23 — were represented by lawyer Zuri Zabuddin Budiman.

She said the court allowed Kalsom and her children’s application to become an intervenor, and fixed Oct 15 for case management.

Aminah, who filed the suit on March 2, is seeking for the court to issue the Islamic wealth distribution certificate for this matter.

She listed assets belonging to her son, including 22 landed properties in Pahang and Kuala Lumpur, 21 bank accounts with more than RM15 million, properties in the United States of America and Makkah, as well as a company he owned.

Under faraid, the mother gets one-sixth of the estate’s assets, the wife gets one-eighth and the remainder is shared among the children.

Jamaludin was the Malaysian envoy to the US and chairman of the 1Malaysia People’s Housing Programme. He died on April 4, 2015, after the helicopter he was travelling in crashed at Kampung Sungai Pening in Semenyih, Selangor.

The helicopter, ferrying six people, was said to have exploded mid-air before crashing into a rubber estate.