KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 30): Former de facto Law minister Datuk Mohd Zaid Ibrahim filed a pre-trial discovery application against the firm he founded, Messrs Zaid Ibrahim & Co, and the law firm s executive chairman and senior partner Datuk Seri Dr Nik Norzrul Thani N Hassan Thani and former managing partner Chew Seng Kok.
The application was filed by Zaid s solicitors Messrs Suffian TH Liew & Partners last Dec 18, in addition to the suit the former minister filed a month earlier.
A case management for the matter was done last Dec 23, before High Court deputy registrar Nurliana Ismail.
In the application sighted by theedgemarkets.com, the 69 year-old Zaid is seeking documents from the law firm which made payments to him after he relinquised his 57% equity share in the law firm in 2008 for RM25.65 million, which was to be made with 20 annual installments of RM1.2 million and the last payment of RM1.65 million.