PUTRAJAYA, April 20 — Control over the RM400 million estate of the late Tan Sri Syed Kechik Syed Mohamed Al-Bukhary will be shared by his second wife and children from both his marriages.

The feud between Syed Kechik’s son from his first marriage, Syed Gamal, and the rest of the late millionaire’s immediate family came to an end after the Federal Court affirmed today the decision that the estate be jointly administered by all four relevant parties in the case.

Puan Sri Sofiah Moo Abdullah (Syed Kechik’s second wife) and her daughters Puan Sri Sharifah Zarah and Sharifah Munira failed in their final bid to stop Syed Gamal from claiming part control of the estate.

A three-man panel led by Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak Tan Sri Richard Malanjum unanimously dismissed Sofiah and the two daughters’ leave application to revise the Court of Appeal’s refusal of their appeal against the High Court ruling.

The court also ordered Sofiah and her daughters to pay the legal cost of RM30,000 to Syed Gamal, 46.

On July 30 last year, High Court Judicial Commissioner Lee Swee Seng ruled that the late Syed Kechik’s estate be jointly administered by his wife and three children.

The feud over the estate began after Syed Kechik, the father-in-law of one of Malaysia’s richest men, Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary, died of heart failure on April 10, 2009 at the age 80 without leaving a will.

On September 15, 2009, Sofiah and her daughters petitioned the court for a letter of administration to the estate.

However, Syed Gamal filed a caveat on April 14 last year to stop his stepmother and half-sisters from taking full control his father’s estate.