A bank has become a third party to claim a shop lot belonging to Azeera Management Consultants (M) Sdn Bhd in relation to the government’s suit to forfeit the property in Bandar Sunway, Selangor.

The government is applying to forfeit almost RM16 million from accounts belonging to the wife of former Tabung Haji chairperson Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim, their four children, and a shop lot owned by the company.

Deputy public prosecutor Nik Haslinie Hashim informed the court that the third party, namely Maybank Islamic Berhad, represented by lawyer Poh Choo Hoe, had appeared in court today...