A long wait for justice to be served

Some 217 people swindled of RM80 million value of land in the 1980s by Ipoh-based counsel have been anticipating for the final fortitude to their predicament.

PETALING JAYA: Some 217 people have been still awaiting probity to be served over 364 acres of agricultural land value RM80 million which was swindled from them about 20 years ago.

The 217 people had purchased the land in Simpang Empat in Hutan Melintang, Perak, in the early 1980s as well as reaped handsome increase from the existing oil palm plantations located there.

However, when palm oil prices plummeted in the 1980s, the organisation mortgaged the land to MBF Holdings. When they could not use the mortgage, the land was put up for auction.

The organisation afterwards appointed an Ipoh-based criminal counsel as the keeper to stop the auction. He secured the land in his name as well as subsequently sole it off to Regal Holdings.

In 1994, the organisation brought the fit against the counsel as well as declared MBF Holdings as well as Regal Holdings as co-defendants.

The Ipoh High Court ruled in favour of the organisation as well as ordered the land be returned along with the increase from the palm oil harvest the past sixteen years to the 217 landowners.

The counsel afterwards appealed, as well as in 2010 the Court of Appeal discharged his application.

He has right away filed the uninformed duplicate for the examination on the drift which Court of Appeal Justice Alaudin Mohd Sheriff recused himself mid-way by the box for health reasons.

This box along with the a single against Regal Holdings as well as MBF Holdings will right away be heard a! t the ap peals court in Putrajaya on October 18.

Speaking to FMT, pro-tem action cabinet authority for the group, S Govinthasamy, said: "There have been attempts to delay as well as divert the case. The counsel deceived the organisation of bad people who had invested their hard-earned income to own land. Justice has been denied for the past seventeen years to the 217 people."

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