Arbitrator in Sulu case jailed 6 months for contempt of court

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Spanish court finds Gonzalo Stampa guilty and also bans him for a year from practising as an arbitrator.    Read More:  https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2024/01/08/arbitrator-in-sulu-case-found-guilty-of-contempt-of-court/   Free Malaysia Today is an independent, bi-lingual news portal with a focus on Malaysian current affairs.    Subscribe to our channel - http://bit.ly/2Qo08ry   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check us out at https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com Follow FMT on Facebook: http://bit.ly/2Rn6xEV Follow FMT on Dailymotion: https://bit.ly/2WGITHM Follow FMT on Twitter: http://bit.ly/2OCwH8a  Follow FMT on Instagram: https://bit.ly/2OKJbc6 Follow FMT on TikTok : https://bit.ly/3cpbWKK Follow FMT Telegram - https://bit.ly/2VUfOrv Follow FMT LinkedIn - https://bit.ly/3B1e8lN Follow FMT Lifestyle on Instagram: https://bit.ly/39dBDbe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download FMT News App: Google Play – http://bit.ly/2YSuV46 App Store – https://apple.co/2HNH7gZ Huawei AppGallery - https://bit.ly/2D2OpNP  #FMTNews #GonzaloStampa #Guilty #Sulu

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00:00 Arbitrator Gonzalo Stampa has been found guilty of contempt by a Spanish court

00:07 In a posting on X, Law and Institutional Reform Minister Azalina Osman Said said Stampa was

00:13 sentenced to six months in prison and banned for a year from practicing as an arbitrator

00:19 In February 2022, a French arbitration court presided over by Stampa instructed Putrajaya

00:25 to pay 14.92 billion US dollars to the purported descendants of the last Sultan of Sulu

00:32 Stampa ruled that Malaysia violated the 1878 agreement between the old Sulu Kingdom in

00:38 the Philippines and a representative of the British North Borneo Company

00:43 However it was later revealed that Stampa's judicial appointment was annulled in June

00:48 2021 by the High Court of Justice of Madrid

00:52 Despite this, he moved his seat of arbitration to Paris and continued to hear the case

00:57 In December, Stampa was charged with contempt and unqualified professional practice for

01:02 defying the Madrid court's decision to annul the Sulu claimants' case

01:06 (upbeat music)

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