PETALING JAYA: A police report has been lodged against former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak for failing to act on the claims by the self-proclaimed heirs of the Sulu sultanate.
PKR deputy president Rafizi Ramli, leading a delegation of leaders from the party, lodged the report at the Setiawangsa police station in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday (July 19).
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At a press conference outside the station, he said Najib had failed to take action after halting the lease payment to the heirs in 2013.
He added that the notice of the suit was sent in 2017, when Najib was still prime minister.
“By right he would have known that this would invite some legal challenge. You get a letter of demand and normally you should reply straight away,” he said.
Previously, Rafizi said he and PKR vice-president Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad would lodge police reports against Najib for alleged "negligence" over the claims by the self-proclaimed heirs of the Sulu sultanate.
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On Sunday (July 17), Rafizi had made the call for police reports to be lodged against Najib nationwide over allegedly misleading social media posts.
In an immediate response, Najib took to Facebook the same day to say that he had never lied in any of his social media posts and that he was merely stating the facts.
The Financial Times had reported that the so-called Sulu heirs had invoked a Paris arbitration court decision to award RM63bil to them.
The eight Sulu heirs based in the Philippines were represented by London-based lawyers led by Elisabeth Mason.
The Financial Times, quoting lawyers for the group, said bailiffs in Luxembourg had seized Luxembourg-registered subsidiaries PETRONAS Azerbaijan (Shah Deniz) and PETRONAS South Caucasus on behalf of their clients on July 11.
