In the lawsuit, filed on May 9 through Lim Chee Wee Partnership, the plaintiffs named Rosmah as the first defendant and Shabnam Naraindas Daswani (also known as Natasha Mirpuri) as the second defendant.
They claimed that Shabnam, who was based in Singapore, had purchased or procured the luxury items on behalf of Rosmah.
The plaintiffs claimed that funds from 1MDB and its subsidiaries were channelled to various offshore entities – including Affinity Equity, Alsen Chance, Blackrock Commodities, Blackstone Asia and Brightstone Jewellery – before being paid out to 48 different vendors based in 14 jurisdictions for the luxury goods.
“A total of 320 such payments totalling US$346,010,489 were made,” the plaintiffs stated.
They further claimed the goods sought were “traceable substitute” of 1MDB and its subsidiaries’ trust property, thus the plaintiffs had an equitable proprietary interest in the luxury goods.
They were seeking a court declaration that they had equitable proprietary interest in the goods and traceable proceeds in the hands of Rosmah as well as an order for Rosmah to pay the first until the sixth plaintiffs a sum of US$346 million.
The lawsuit is fixed for case management on May 24.
Rosmah was on Sept 1, 2022, convicted by the High Court of three counts of graft relating to a RM1.25 billion (S$357 million) solar hybrid project for 369 rural schools in Sarawak.
She was sentenced to 10 years in jail and fined RM970 million. THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK
