KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 11): Former finance minister Tun Daim Zainuddin’s family and their company Ilham Tower Sdn Bhd (ITSB) has filed a judicial review application to challenge the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission’s (MACC) action to freeze their accounts and subject them to investigation.

Daim, whose real name is Che Abdul Naim Zainuddin, along with his wife Toh Puan Na’imah Abdul Khalid, Daim’s four children and ITSB, which owns the namesake tower in Kuala Lumpur, filed the judicial review application on Wednesday (Jan 10) at the High Court through Messrs Tommy Thomas, the law firm of former attorney-general (AG) Tan Sri Tommy Thomas.

They named the graftbuster and the public prosecutor as respondents.

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In their application, they sought permission to pursue a declaration that the MACC has no reasonable cause to investigate Daim, his family members, or his nominees and agents for an offence under the Anti-Money Laundering, Anti-Terrorism Financing and Proceeds of Unlawful Activities Act, 2001 (AMLA).

In addition, they are seeking to pursue a declaration that if any charges are to be instituted by the public prosecutor against Daim or his family members, such charges would be unconstitutional and void, as they alleged they would not receive a fair trial following the delay of some 22 years in instituting them, and this infringed their right to personal liberty under Article 5 of the Federal Constitution.

They also sought to pursue a declaration that the 66 notices issued by the MACC against them are unlawful and unconstitutional.

Besides this, they sought an order of certiorari against the commission and its officers to quash all investigations on them as per the 66 notices issued on them.

In addition, they sought a prohibition order directed against the commission to cease all further investigations on their family. 

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