Omar Ali had also testified on Monday that he had handed over these 35 cheques issued in 2016 to Zahid.
Omar Ali had also on Monday testified how multiple unknown individuals that Zahid had told him were from Yayasan Al Bukhari had subsequently handed him cash at a shopping mall and hotel lobbies, with the first involving a piece of luggage which he recalled contained possibly in the range of RM1.5 million.
Asked today by Sazilee about his role in the entire cash-to-cheque conversions, Omar Ali said his task was to follow Zahid’s instructions as Zahid frequently does charity work and he had deposited the funds into Yayasan Akalbudi as he wanted to seekConfirming that he had followed instructions as he wanted divine blessings, Omar Ali today confirmed that he did not ask why the funds were not deposited into a foundation instead of being made out to the law firm Lewis & Co.
In one of the money-laundering charges that Zahid is facing, he was accused of having committed a money-laundering offence by allegedly instructing Omar Ali to allegedly launder over RM6.885 million of illegal funds into 30 cheques that were then passed to Lewis & Co for the purpose of buying fixed deposits in Maybank.
Under cross-examination by Zaidi, Omar Ali agreed that there was no paper trail when he received the cash from the unknown individuals as he did not take down their names or identity card details, further agreeing that the paper trail or money trail began when he converted the cash into cheques.
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