KUALA LUMPUR, May 19 — The High Court today granted leave for Datin Seri Pamela Ling Yueh to proceed with her judicial review challenging her arrest and a travel ban imposed by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) and the Immigration Director-General.

High Court Judge Datuk Amarjeet Singh Serjit Singh granted Ling’s application, following a leave hearing today.

He then set the case management for June 3.

Ling was represented by lawyers Datuk Malik Imtiaz Sarwar, Lim Yvonne, and Surendra Anath while senior federal counsel Mohd Faisal Md Noor appeared for the respondents.

In her judicial review application, Ling is seeking several orders, including the cancellation of the arrest warrant used by the MACC for her January 8 arrest, the lifting of her travel ban to allow her to leave Malaysia to care for her three children in Singapore, and compensation of at least RM137,000.

She had filed her lawsuit on April 7, just two days before her disappearance when her e-hailing ride to MACC was intercepted by unknown individuals in several vehicles.

Ling remains missing as of this date.

Based on court papers, Ling detailed multiple events, including MACC’s obtaining of an arrest warrant on December 2, 2024, over her failure to comply with the agency’s October 29, 2024, order to appear at its Johor Bahru office the next day for investigations into a case.

The investigations were for a case involving her father’s business, which he said in court documents had been resolved after his late November 2024 payment of a compound sum offered by MACC.

Explaining her reasons for not showing up in October 2024, Ling said she had feared for her safety and claimed that her estranged husband was using MACC to pressure her.

In lengthy court documents, Ling asserts that the MACC’s October 2024 order was not served according to the law, and that she had not wished to accept the order and had taken it under protest from an MACC officer without acknowledging service.

According to Ling, Singapore authorities on January 8 carried out the arrest warrant by taking her into custody in Singapore, before passing her to MACC officers at the Malaysia-Singapore immigration checkpoint the same day.

Among other things, Ling in her court documents expressed her belief that the actual purpose of her arrest, remand and travel ban was to pressure her to resolve with her estranged husband on her claims, including on assets in their marriage and on his alleged forgery of her signature on a disputed July 2023 share transfer document.

Claiming that MACC had allegedly abused its powers and acted beyond the powers it had under the laws, Ling asserted that MACC had no legal basis to apply for the arrest warrant and the remand order or to impose conditions on her January 11 release from remand.

The expenses she is seeking to claim in her court challenge include her hotel stays since there is a travel restriction on her, and the RM70,000 she has so far paid to criminal lawyers for matters such as opposing the remand application and to deal with the MACC.

She is also seeking general damages for MACC’s alleged unlawful arrest and detention of her during January 8 to January 11, and alleged emotional and psychological distress due to those actions and being allegedly unlawfully separated from her children who she said needs her care.

She claims to have been denied her constitutional rights to liberty and equal protection of the law under the Federal Constitution’s Article 5(1) and Article 8(1), respectively.