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Hiebert , FEER:
The suit was filed at the Kuala Lumpur High When Stamford insisted on retaining its
Court early this month but was transferred original 70% and on being paid M$185,250
Friday to the Johor Baru High Court, per hectare for its property, one of
Bernama said. Muhyiddin's associates allegedly warned the
company that the land-acquisition papers
Stamford Holdings also named the Johor were on the former chief minister's desk
state government as a defendant in the suit, and could be "signed at any time."
alleging that Muhyiddin and the two Muhyiddin himself allegedly threatened
businessmen conspired to use the state Stamford in December 1992 by telling one
government's authority to acquire the land. of its directors that "time is getting short."
In July 1994, the state government acquired
According to the news report, Stamford the land on behalf of the Johor Islamic
Holdings wants the court to declare that the Economic Development Corp.
Johor State Islamic Economic Development
Corporation was not entitled to invoke (MALAYSIA --- The Privileged Few
provisions of the Land Acquisition Act to By Murray Hiebert in Kuala Lumpur
acquire a private landed property. 6 July 1995,Far Eastern Economic Review)