KUALA LUMPUR – Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor has given an undertaking to the High Court to not dispose of or sell her designer handbags, jewellery and other luxury items disputed in a US$346 million (S$468 million) lawsuit filed by 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) against her.
The undertaking was made through her lawyers Reza Rahim and Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, in a Zoom proceeding related to an application for a Mareva injunction before Judicial Commissioner Adlin Abdul Majid on June 14.
A Mareva injunction is a temporary order that restrains the defendant from disposing of assets until the determination of the case between the plaintiff and the defendant.
The ad interim injunction was recorded by the court after 1MDB, which was represented by lawyer Datuk Lim Chee Wee, agreed to the undertaking.
The case will be heard again 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 (US$1.77 million), pink diamond bracelet (US$1.2 million) and butterfly-shaped diamond ring (US$1.05 million).
Also listed were two Hermes handbags – Hermes Rose Amethyste Croco Horse Shoe Special Order (US$130,000) and Hermes White with Gray Croco Skin that costs RM2 million (S$578,000).
Included in the list is also a Cecil Purnell Ti watch that costs RM1 million.
All of the disputed assets said to be in the possession and control of Rosmah were listed in a 612-page appendix.
Mr Muhammad Shafee, however, asked that the injunction not be made solely based on the appendix as the defendant needed to verify whether all of the items were really in his client’s possession.
On May 9, 1MDB, SRC and nine others (including four 1MDB subsidiaries) filed the lawsuit against Rosmah seeking US$364 million belonging to them.
The plaintiffs claimed that Rosmah, the wife of former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, had used the funds from the companies to purchase luxury items such as jewellery, watches and handbags.
Apart from 1MDB, SRC and the four companies, other plaintiffs are Affinity Equity International Partners Ltd, Alsen Chance Holdings Ltd, Blackrock Commodities (Global) Ltd, Blackstone Asia Real Estate Partners Ltd and Brightstone Jewellery Ltd.
The plaintiffs named Rosmah as the first defendant and Shabnam Naraindas Daswani (also known as Natasha Mirpuri) as the second defendant.
