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Vanished Kingdom’s Descendants Sue Malaysia for Billions

Case springs back to life in a French court

Jun 19, 2023
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By: B A Hamzah
When the shooting started

Since 2018, a legal case has been winding its way through the courts of Spain and France on the part of the putative descendants of the long-vanquished Sulu Sultanate, a tenacious and determined lot, which legal scholars believe to be specious but which could cost the government of Malaysia billions of dollars.

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