PUTRAJAYA, Nov. 3 -- Seven months after the disappearance of Sarawak businesswoman Pamela Ling, the Singapore High Court has ruled in favour of her estranged husband Thomas Hah in a dispute over ownership of a company holding six commercial properties in Singapore.

In a report yesterday Singapore's The Straits Times, Justice Chua Lee Ming found that Hah, the founder of Malaysian conglomerate Joinland Group, was the beneficial owner of Multi Galaxy Pte Ltd, and that Ling's registered shares were held in trust for him.

The judge ruled that Ling had wrongfully transferred 279,650 shares, or 55.93 per cent of the company, to herself in December 2023 and that her removal of Hah as director was invalid.

She was also ordered to repay S$203,28...