Mahkamah Arah Pemaju Pulang Wang Penyelenggaraan RM1.8 Juta

KUALA LUMPUR: Mahkamah Tinggi di sini pada Isnin memerintahkan sebuah syarikat pemaju memulangkan yuran pengurusan dan penyelenggaraan berjumlah RM1.8 juta kepada perbadanan pengurusan sembilan blok pangsapuri di Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan.

Hakim Datuk V.T.Singham juga mengarahkan Pengkalen Holiday Resort Sdn Bhd (PHR), selaku defendan, membayar kos RM50,000 kepada dua plaintif iaitu perbadanan pengurusan Paradise Lagoon Apartment (North) dan Paradise Lagoon Apartment (South).

Dalam penghakiman setebal 32 halaman itu, Singham berkata mahkamah tidak dapat membezakan apa-apa prinsip undang-undang yang membenarkan pemaju untuk menyimpan, memindah atau menukar jumlah RM1,803,972.63 yang telah dibayar ke akaun Pangsapuri PHR untuk manfaat dan kegunaan sendiri.

"Mengikut hukum alam, tiada siapa boleh memperkayakan dirinya secara tidak adil...dalam kes ini, pemaju mengambil kesempatan ke atas pemilik," katanya.

Beliau juga berpendapat bahawa keadilan menuntut pemaju dikehendaki memulangkan jumlah dana lebihan yang dikutip dari pemilik blok pangsapuri untuk khidmat penyelenggaraan seperti termaktub di bawah Akta Hakmilik Strata 1985.

Singham berkata hakikat bahawa ia mungkin menjadi amalan biasa bagi pemaju untuk menyimpan semua caj pengurusan dan penyelenggaraan yang dikutip dari pemilik unit kondominium dalam tempoh pra penubuhan perbadanan pengurusan dan penubuhan majlis di bawah Akta Hakmilik Strata tetapi ia tidak semestinya bermakna wang dalam akaun Pangsapuri PHR menjadi milik pemaju.

Beliau berkataan ciptaan jangkaan atau amalan semata-mata tidak mencukupi dalam undang-undang melainkan jika ia adalah jangkaan hak undang-undang dan dalam kes ini, ia tidak ada hak undang-undang.

"Mahkamah ini mendapati bahawa ia akan menjadi tak saksama melampau dan tidak adil untuk membenarkan pemaju memindahkan aset unit pemilik ke dalam akaun peribadi," katanya.

Singham menegaskan bahawa ia juga tidak adil secara nyata untuk membenarkan pemaju menyimpan atau memindahkan lebihan wang ke dalam akaunnya selepas menghentikan khidmat mengurus pangsapuri itu.

Pada 2012, perbadanan pengurusan melibatkan pemilik Blok A, B dan C Paradise Lagoon Apartment (North) dan enam blok di Paradise Lagoon Apartment (South) telah memfailkan saman terhadap pemaju itu dengan menuntut caj penyelenggaraan yang dikutip antara September 1994 dan Mei 2006 adalah milik mereka dan pemaju perlu memulangkan jumlah tersebut kepada mereka. - BERNAMA

Obama and Putin Continue to Disagree on Syria

Rebels clash with Syrian government forces

AFP file

U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday agreed that they disagree about the situation in Syria.

At the same time, reported the AFPnews agency, the two leaders pledged to at least try to keep alive a frail and much-delayed effort to hold a Geneva peace conference.

The U.S. and Russian presidents faced off on the sidelines of the G8 summit in Northern Ireland, days after the White House signaled it would begin arming rebels battling Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad.

Putin and Obama did not try to disguise the fact they are estranged on Syria and cannot agree on Assad's fate -- but appeared keen to keep flagrant differences on the vicious civil war from sinking wider U.S.-Russia relations.

They announced Obama would go to Moscow on September 3-4 for a full-scale summit, expanding a previously announced trip that includes the G20 summit in St. Petersburg, according to AFP.

They spoke of cooperation on terrorism and economics, with Russia now in the World Trade Organization, and agreed to revive a frozen agreement which secures loose nuclear and radioactive materials in the former Soviet Union.

On Syria, however, the differences remain deep.

"Of course our opinions do not converge, but all of us have the intention to stop the violence in Syria and stop the growth in the number of victims," said Putin, who has scoffed at U.S. plans to begin arming selected rebels.

He said he and Obama agreed that the vicious civil war that has killed at least 90,000 people must end "peacefully" and through talks.

"We agreed to push the parties to the negotiating table," he said, according to AFP.

Obama acknowledged that they had "different perspectives" on Syria.

Washington and Moscow have agreed in principle to host a conference in Geneva on ending the violence in Syria, but the timetable for the meeting has continually slipped over disagreements on who should attend.

Still, Obama said he and Putin would instruct their teams to keep at it.

"We share an interest in reducing the violence, securing chemical weapons and ensuring that they are neither used nor are they subject to proliferation," Obama said, according to AFP.

"We want to try to resolve the issue through political means if possible, so we will instruct our teams to continue to work on the potential of a Geneva follow-up."

The U.S. government announced last week that the Syrian army used chemical weapons against rebel forces on multiple occasions, adding that America will increase the “scope and scale” of its assistance to rebels in Syria in response.

An aide to Putin said on Friday that Russia is not convinced by the evidence which the U.S. provided alleging that the Assad government used chemical weapons against rebel forces.

Putin himself on Sunday said that the Syrian rebels are “cannibals” and should not be given arms, referring to video footage posted on the Internet last month of a rebel fighter eating the heart of a government soldier.

Both leaders said they hoped Iran's election would unfreeze the currently stalled talks between Tehran and world powers over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.

Obama said he and Putin had expressed "cautious optimism" that the election of the next Iranian president Hassan Rowhani, who is seen as a comparative moderate, could change the dynamics of the effort.

Putin said he hoped that the vote would reveal "new opportunities to solve the Iranian nuclear problem."