KUALA LUMPUR: Toh Puan Na'imah Khalid filed an application at the High Court here to have her passport returned permanently to her.
The wife of former finance minister Tun Daim Zainuddin filed the revision for the permanent release of the document via her lawyer recently.
Counsel Rajesh Nagarajan confirmed this when contacted.
However, he declined to comment further as the case is now in court.
"Our application will be heard next week (Feb 19) at the High Court 1 in Jalan Duta," he said briefly.
Na'imah surrendered her passport at the Sessions Court as part of her bail condition after she was charged with failing to declare her assets to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).
On Jan 23, she pleaded not guilty to the offence before judge Azura Alwi.
According to the charge sheet, the 67-year-old failed to comply with an MACC notice to declare her assets such as:
* Companies — Ilham Tower Sdn Bhd and Ilham Baru Sdn Bhd;
* Luxury vehicles — Mercedes Benz EQC400 and Mercedes Benz 500SL;
* Properties — Menara Ilham, official residence in Bukit Tunku, four freehold pieces of land and buildings near Bukit Tunku as well as freehold land and building near Jalan Anthinahapan and Cantoment Road in Penang.
The offence falls under Section 36(2) of the MACC Act which carries a maximum five years' imprisonment and RM100,000 fine upon conviction.
She was released on RM250,000 bail with one surety.
A week later, her 85-year-old husband was also charged with a similar offence involving one bank account, seven luxury vehicles, 38 companies, and 25 properties at the MACC headquarters in Putrajaya on Dec 13, last year.
Na'imah and her two sons, Amir and Amin, on Jan 10, were summoned to the MACC headquarters in Putrajaya to have their statements recorded.
MACC had said this was done to ascertain the worth of some of the high-value assets in the country and abroad held under the companies belonging to the family in relation to the probe on Daim.
The commission had said a notice was served to Daim under Section 36(1)(a) of the MACC Act 2009, on June 7 last year, while his family members were served notices under Section 36(1)(b) of the same act.
