The High Court dismissed a preliminary objection in the RM1.6 billion Genting inheritance case, allowing the removal application against the estate’s administrators to proceed.
KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court today dismissed a preliminary objection raised by court-appointed administrators overseeing the RM1.6 billion estate of the late Lim Siew Kim.
Judge Mahazan Mat Taib ruled in favour of Marcus Chan Jau Chwen, the son of Siew Kim and grandson of Genting founder Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong.
The judge held that the administrators’ submission was incorrect, as Marcus was relying on evidence already before the court.
“That constitutes a submission based on documents already on record, so it does not amount to the introduction of new evidence,” said Mahazan.
She stated the court would not allow new factual matters to be introduced through submissions, deeming the objection “misconceived and overruled”.
The administrators’ counsel had argued that portions of Marcus’s written submissions contained new factual allegations not pleaded in the affidavit evidence.
The parties proceeded immediately with the hearing of Marcus’s application to remove the administrators, which is scheduled to continue on March 4.
Siew Kim died in July 2022, and her estate has been managed by administrators pendente lite amid a family dispute over the validity of her will.
The High Court appointed lawyer Datuk Satharuban Sivasubramaniam and Khoo Siew Kiat as administrators in November 2023.
They took over after two of Siew Kim’s daughters filed a probate suit challenging the validity of a will said to have been executed in April of that year.
Marcus, a 30% beneficiary of the residuary estate, is seeking the removal of both administrators, alleging misconduct and non-compliance with a court order.
Among his complaints are that payments were made from individual bank accounts rather than consolidated trust accounts.
He also alleges estate funds were depleted through wrongful payments and that the administrators interfered in the management of linked companies.
Marcus further alleged the administrators nearly caused the estate to pay RM4.73 million in assessments on behalf of Prominview Sdn Bhd, despite the liability allegedly resting with a joint venture partner.
Other complaints include lodging private caveats and undertaking property valuations without authority to distribute estate assets.
Marcus obtained an ad interim injunction on Jan 23, 2026, restraining the administrators from acting for the estate pending disposal of the removal application.
The Sun Malaysia