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Feb 19, 2010
Ex-national shuttler sued
<!-- by line --> By K. C. Vijayan, Law Correspondent
Ms Fatimah (above) went to Brunei to work as a badminton coach in 2003. She was later a bodyguard and assistant to Madam Mariam (second picture). -- PHOTOS: BH FILE PHOTO AND ASSOCIATED PRESS
According to statements she made to Brunei police, Ms Fatimah claimed that she had no intention of keeping the money. She said she simply wanted to use it to cover her casino debts and return the sum later, pointing out that she would not have returned to Brunei otherwise.
<!-- story content : start --> FORMER national shuttler Fatimah Kumin Lim has been named in a civil suit started by the ex-wife of the Sultan of Brunei over two missing diamonds worth US$7 million ($9.8 million). Madam Mariam Aziz, 53, is demanding that Ms Fatimah, 32, who was her bodyguard until she resigned in August last year, return US$7 million - the amount Ms Fatimah allegedly sold the two rare blue and yellow diamonds for. Madam Mariam's lawyers from Allen & Gledhill led by Dinesh Singh Dhillon went to the High Court last month and succeeded in obtaining a court order to freeze Ms Fatimah's assets, pending a full hearing into the case.
Read the full story in Friday's edition of The Straits Times.
Feb 19, 2010
Ex-national shuttler sued
<!-- by line --> By K. C. Vijayan, Law Correspondent
Ms Fatimah (above) went to Brunei to work as a badminton coach in 2003. She was later a bodyguard and assistant to Madam Mariam (second picture). -- PHOTOS: BH FILE PHOTO AND ASSOCIATED PRESS
According to statements she made to Brunei police, Ms Fatimah claimed that she had no intention of keeping the money. She said she simply wanted to use it to cover her casino debts and return the sum later, pointing out that she would not have returned to Brunei otherwise.
<!-- story content : start --> FORMER national shuttler Fatimah Kumin Lim has been named in a civil suit started by the ex-wife of the Sultan of Brunei over two missing diamonds worth US$7 million ($9.8 million). Madam Mariam Aziz, 53, is demanding that Ms Fatimah, 32, who was her bodyguard until she resigned in August last year, return US$7 million - the amount Ms Fatimah allegedly sold the two rare blue and yellow diamonds for. Madam Mariam's lawyers from Allen & Gledhill led by Dinesh Singh Dhillon went to the High Court last month and succeeded in obtaining a court order to freeze Ms Fatimah's assets, pending a full hearing into the case.
Read the full story in Friday's edition of The Straits Times.
