KLANG: A businessman has claimed that the lawyer brothers allegedly behind the murder of cosmetics millionaire Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya had cheated him of RM100,000 over the purchase of a house in Banting.
In his suit filed with the Sessions Court here in 2006, M. Rajeanteran, 44, claimed that he had entered into an agreement to purchase a house at No. 6, Jalan Teratai, Taman Seri Telok Datok, Banting, worth RM250,000 from one Sabariah Mahamod on Dec 14, 1998.
The suit, which came up for hearing at the Sessions Court here yesterday, named the two brothers as the first and second defendants, and Sabariah as the third defendant.
However, judge Anita Harun postponed the matter to Oct 15 to hear an earlier application by the brothers that their insurance company was repudiating their liability in the case.
T. Rajasekaran, who acted for Rajeanteran, said the matter in the suit was the subject of a complaint brought with the Legal Disciplinary Board, which decided to strike them off the rolls last year.
“However, the lawyer brothers subsequently got a stay on the decision through the Kuala Lumpur High Court,” he said.
In his statement of claim, Rajaeanteran contended that the brothers had misrepresented themselves as lawyers and used a false legal address when they prepared the agreement, for which he paid RM100,000 as deposit.
He also claimed that he had only entered into the agreement after they led him to believe that Sabariah wanted to sell the house at below market price.
The brothers, he alleged, had also prepared a false writ of summons, which they claimed they had filed with the Shah Alam High Court against Sabariah after it was found that the redemption sum for the bank mortgage on the house was actually higher than RM150,000, the remaining sum.
The plaintiff is now seeking the RM100,000 he had paid as deposit plus interest, general and exemplary damages, costs and other relief deemed reasonable by the court.
