KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 11 -- A judge in the High Court here ruled last month in favour of the defendants in a case she described as "obviously a fraudulent and sham claim by fraudulent personas" to force the sale of property for RM40 million instead of the offer price of RM60 million.

In her judgment dated January 22, Judge Datuk Azimah Omar repeatedly called Thevandran Ragavan, the principal of well-known KL real estate agents Thevan Realty, a fraudster, using the term "Fraudulent Thevan" throughout her written judgment.

She also singled out Maragatham Karuppiah, a woman who pretended to be a lawyer and was named in the judgment as "Fraudulent Usha" in an attempt to force the sale at a lower price of a piece of land in Johor belonging to t...