KUALA LUMPUR, June 7 — The purported Sulu heirs who want Malaysia to pay them US$14.9 billion are actually “fraudulent” in their behaviour, and any Malaysians who try to help...
KUALA LUMPUR, June 7 — The purported Sulu heirs who want Malaysia to pay them US$14.9 billion are actually “fraudulent” in their behaviour, and any Malaysians who try to help these Sulu claimants will be committing a crime against the country and the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, minister Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said said today.
Azalina, who chairs Malaysia’s special secretariat on the Sulu case, said Malaysia had stopped the annual payment of RM5,300 to the now-defunct Sulu sultanate, because of an intrusion to Lahad Datu, Sabah in 2013 by armed men linked to a self-proclaimed Sulu sultan. “Suddenly there was terrorism with weapons, many deaths happened. Can’t be that we want to continue payment,” she said in a press conference today at the World Trade Centre here.
“Any Malaysian who is responsible to help will be viewed as an enemy of the country, because under our laws, especially in the Penal Code, such characteristics are seen as going against the country’s sovereignty and opposing the leadership and power of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong. It’s an offence against the state, it’s an offence against the King and country.
“I want to remind, this is not an intimidation, but to remind Malaysians, this is a serious attack against the country’s sovereignty, although not from the element of weapons, but from the element of bankrupting Malaysia with the award,” she said, referring to the US$14.9 billion arbitration award which the Sulu claimants want to enforce against Malaysia.
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