KUALA LUMPUR, March 28 — The Cabinet never gave approval for then-attorney general Tan Sri Tommy Thomas to write in 2019 to the lawyers of the purported “heirs” of the...
KUALA LUMPUR, March 28 — The Cabinet never gave approval for then-attorney general Tan Sri Tommy Thomas to write in 2019 to the lawyers of the purported “heirs” of the defunct Sulu sultanate about annual payments over Sabah, according to Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said.
“The action of the former attorney general in issuing the letter containing his own decision without the Cabinet’s approval goes against the principle of collective decision which is practised as enshrined in the Federal Constitution,” she said in a written parliamentary reply today. “For now, the Malaysian government has taken the stand to distance itself or ‘to disassociate itself’ from the issuance of that letter dated September 19, 2019 by choosing not to represent the former attorney general in an action at the High Court in Kota Kinabalu, Suit No. BKI-22NCVC-64/8-2022 which was filed by nine plaintiffs from Sabah against him,” Azalina said.
She said the High Court in Kota Kinabalu had on January 3 approved the Malaysian government’s application to intervene and to obtain those two court orders, including the order to stop Thomas from making comments on the arbitration.
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