‘Funds used for political activities’


KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi (pic) has finished giving evidence in his defence on 47 charges of criminal breach of trust, corruption and money laundering involving tens of millions of ringgit belonging to Yayasan Akalbudi, a charitable foundation he founded.

The 69-year-old former deputy prime minister first took the witness stand on April 13 to testify in his defence before High Court judge Justice Collin Lawrence Sequerah. He was in the witness stand for 17 days.

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