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.
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