A PKR lawmaker will file an urgent motion in Parliament today to discuss attorney-general Mohamed Apandi Ali's refusal to claim businessperson Low Taek Jho's (Jho Low) luxury yacht Equanimity, which was seized by Indonesian authorities recently.

Alor Setar MP Gooi Hsiao Leung said Apandi's remark yesterday that the government will not lay claim to the vessel, was "totally unacceptable and tantamount to a blatant disregard of his public duty as the attorney-general."

"I remind the attorney-general that he has a constitutional duty to safeguard public interest, and as the highest officer of the law, it is his job to recover the Equanimity, which was purchased using 1MDB's stolen funds, belonging to the people of Malaysia," Gooi told Malaysiakini.

The US$250 million (RM1 billion) superyacht was seized by the Indonesian police, in collaboration with the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in Bali, on Wednesday...