Former finance minister Tun Daim Zainuddin and his family have filed an application for leave to commence a judicial review seeking to unfreeze their assets worth millions.
The application was filed by Messrs Zarif Nizamuddin at the Kuala Lumpur High Court on Thursday, June 6.
Besides Daim and his wife, Tor Puan Na’imah Abdul Khalid, other plaintiffs in the suit include Daim’s four children and 18 companies.
They named six defendants: the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) and its chief commissioner Tan Sri Azam Baki, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, the government, and two MACC officials.
In a supporting affidavit affirmed by Na’imah, she said the applicants have been adversely affected by the decisions, actions and statements of the defendants, either directly, indirectly, or through vicarious liability at macro- and micro-economic levels.
She said the defendants’ actions, including the asset freeze, were “deliberate” to show that the applicants were from corrupt families who made their wealth through illegal means.
“I have been advised by my lawyer and I verily believe that the decisions, actions and words by the MACC were for political collateral purposes,” she said.
To date, Daim and his family have not been charged with money laundering in court.
Among the reliefs they are seeking in their application are a judicial declaration that the asset freeze was unlawful because it violated their constitutional rights and was done in bad faith.
They are also seeking an injunction to lift the order freezing their accounts and damages.
The application for judicial review is scheduled to be heard tomorrow before Justice Wan Ahmad Farid Wan Salleh at the High Court.
Daim and Na’imah are facing criminal charges in the Kuala Lumpur High Court for failing to comply with MACC’s requests to disclose their assets.