Messrs FT Ahmad & Co

18/12/2025

Kota Kinabalu: The High Court on Wednesday struck out an application for judicial review by Grant Thornton against the Chief Minister, Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor, and the Sabah Government.

10/09/2025

Another good result for my client In the Court of Appeal yesterday, 10 September 2025.

Sabah & Sarawak

Wednesday, 10 Sep 20255:51 PM MYT

KOTA KINABALU: Debt-ridden Sabah Forest Industries Sdn Bhd (SFI) failed in its bid to overturn a winding-up order made against it by the High Court in 2021.

The Court of Appeal on Wednesday (Sept 10) in a unanimous ruling struck out SFI’s appeal with costs following a preliminary objection raised by Sabah Development Bank Bhd (SDB).

“The Appellant (SFI) failed to justify to the Court of Appeal why it was nearly two years late in serving its Notice of Appeal on SDB, the interveners in SFI’s appeal.

“Accordingly, SFI’s appeal was struck out,” said Tengku Datuk Fuad Tengku Ahmad, who acted for SDB.

He said SFI was indebted to the SDB to the tune of some RM120mil, including interest.

“Sabah Development Bank’s original loan to SFI of RM93mil is unsecured and was granted under the then Warisan Government in 2019.

“Since then, I am unaware of any repayment made by SFI,” Fuad said.

The unsecured loan was made to SFI despite the company being some RM1.5bil in debt, in receivership and having ceased its operations in 2016.

Now that the Court of Appeal has ruled, Fuad said it was finally time for SFI’s assets to be realised in favour of creditors, some of whom have been denied their rights since 2017.

SFI has since had its timber concessions cancelled by the state government.

The Court of Appeal Quorum was represented by Datuk Seri Mohd Firuz Jaffril, Datuk Dr. Alwi Abdul Wahab and Evrol Mariette Peters while counsels S.Vanugopal and J. Marimhuthu appeared for SFI.

31/08/2023

Selamat menyambut Hari Sabah ke 60!

04/08/2023

“The Chief Minister, after hearing Idris Hydralic’s representations, correctly decided that it was not in the public interest, among others, for Idris Hydraulic to be owned by not one but two, wound up shareholders" said Tengku Fuad.

Kota Kinabalu: The High Court on Wednesday struck out Idris Hydraulic (M) Sdn Bhd’s judicial review application against the Chief Minister and the State Government over the cancellation of its Sustainable Forest Management Licence (SFMLA) in respect of Forest Management Units 8 and 13 (FMU 8 and 1...

11/07/2023

My full speech delivered at the Sulu Claim Arbitration Colloquium on the 4th July 2023.
https://fb.watch/lIrN07EFa2/?mibextid=RUbZ1f

06/06/2023

Win for Malaysia. Proud to serve on the Special Secretariat.

KOTA KINABALU: Malaysia has won the battle to set aside a Paris Arbitration Court's purported award of US$14.94bil to the self-claimed heirs of the defunct Sulu Sultanate.

30/05/2023

“If Articles 6 and 7 were to be amended to achieve this, then it would put an end to the appalling culture of gathering statutory declarations and then racing to the Istana Negeri to be sworn in as chief minister, sometimes in the dead of night.

KOTA KINABALU: Article 6(7) of the Sabah Constitution was “poorly drafted and ill-considered”, says Tengku Datuk Fuad Tengku Ahmad.

06/05/2023

"The issue of Sabah's sovereignty is not complex. We cannot keep saying that it is. Sabah is Malaysia and Malaysia is Sabah," (May 5)

06/05/2023

"Fuad, who is also the legal advisor to the state government, said the Federal Government was not firm enough when answering questions pertaining to Sabah and it has to make it very clear that Sabah, being part of Malaysia, was not going anywhere."

KOTA KINABALU: The Federal Government must make a clear stand once and for all that Sabah is part of Malaysia and no one else should make any claim otherwise, says lawyer Datuk Fuad Ahmad.

15/03/2023

Team Messrs FT Ahmad & Co

KOTA KINABALU: The Election Court has struck out the election petition by Parti KDM president Datuk Peter Anthony to nullify the results of the Tenom parliamentary seat in GE15.

15/03/2023

"As long as a person remains convicted, he or she is disqualified from contesting in an election. It is irrelevant that there has been a stay of conviction because a stay only suspends the effects of conviction — it does not cause the conviction to disappear’ said Fuad.

KOTA KINABALU, March 15 — The Election Court today struck out Parti Kesejahteraan Demokratik Masyarakat president Datuk Peter Anthony’s election petition against Tenom MP...