KOTA KINABALU: An arbitration court in France has ordered Malaysia to pay US$14.9bil (RM62.6bil) to the descendants of the Sulu sultan but lawyers here believe that the government has an option to set aside the court ruling.
This came in response to online reports about the French court’s decision, which was said to be based on the alleged violation of payments of cession money under a 1878 agreement signed by Sultan Jamal Al Alam, among others.
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