Shareholders of three companies were forced to enter into several agreements with a man alleged to be a proxy of a political leader in the pre-2018 BN government, the High Court in Kuala Lumpur ruled.

In a 115-page judgment of the verdict issued last week, judicial commissioner Ong Chee Kwan made the scathing summation when ruling in favour of the three shareholder plaintiffs lawsuits against the man’s wife, defendant Norhana Sharkhan...