Sulu strikes again


Deal breaker: A Malaysian security force personnel at Kampung Tanduo, Lahad Datu, in an operation to flush out Sulu gunmen in 2013. When ‘Raja Muda’ Agbimuddin led the armed attack on Sabah, masterminded by his brother ‘Sultan’ Jamalul Kiram III, Malaysia stopped payment, says the writer. – Photo provided

THE Sulu partisans’ claim to US$14.9bil (RM66.3bil) from Malaysia had on July 11 bailiffs in Luxembourg seize two PETRONAS subsidiaries registered there in supposed part-restitution.

The sum is allegedly for unpaid dues and a share of Sabah’s oil revenues. These claims are totally without any merit or justification.

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