Malaysia secured a decisive legal victory in a court in France that ended the claims by the self-proclaimed heirs of the defunct Sulu sultanate on the Malaysian government’s diplomatic assets.

Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reforms) Azalina Othman Said said that on Monday (Nov 6), the court annulled the order of a statue to be mortgaged against Malaysian diplomatic buildings in Paris.

She said the court yesterday (Nov 9) also recorded...