Malaysia is in the process of obtaining an annulment of the purported final award of US$14.9 billion (RM62.59 billion) issued by a Spanish arbitrator Dr Gonzalo Stampa in the case brought by the purported heirs of the Sulu Sultan, says Azalina Othman Said.

The minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform) said with this annulment, the government’s long-standing battle against the Sulu claims will come to an end as the basis of the claims would cease to exist.

“In the Sulu fraud...