KUALA LUMPUR: An attempt to settle a suit by the mother of former minister Datuk Seri Jamaludin Jarjis (JJ) against her two grandchildren for a stake in three companies said to be worth RM1.3 billion has fizzled out.

Counsel Pawancheek Merican, acting for Aminah Abdullah, disclosed this to The Edge Financial Daily when contacted yesterday, but did not go into the details of the mediation effort.

“Hence the hearing for the case will start on Thursday (tomorrow),” Pawancheek, who appeared with Kamar Ainiah Kamaruzaman, said.

 Aminah, who is wheelchair-bound, is asking the court to declare that she is Jamaluddin’s lawful mother, and hence a beneficiary of his estate and has an interest in the shares namely:

• Three million Rantai Wawasan shares worth RM1.044 billion;

• Six million Alpine Motion shares worth RM233 million; and,

• Two Ivory Insights shares worth RM80 million.

She is claiming one sixth of the value of the shares from the estate according to the Islamic faraid system of estate distribution.