Zahid asked for almost RM18m from Yayasan Akalbudi to be transferred to trustee law firm, says witnessDatuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi had personally instructed for the liquidation of almost RM18 million from the Yayasan Akalbudi foundation’s fixed deposit accounts to be issued to a law firm by way of banker’s cheques, the High Court was told today. — Picture by Shafwan Zaidon
Narimah Miswadi, the prosecution’s sixth witness, made the revelation during today’s proceedings adding how the instructions were given to her by Zahid during a June 2016 meeting at his office in Putrajaya. “Based on the instructions of Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, I made an application for approval from the headquarters to allow Yayasan Akalbudi to use banker’s cheques to make the payments to Messrs Lewis & Co,” she said when reading out her witness statement today.
Proceedings today were before Judge Collin Lawrence Sequerah, with Datuk Raja Rozela Raja Toran and Deputy Public Prosecutor Lee Keng Fatt appearing for the prosecution.During the cross-examination, Ahmad Zaidi had asked the witness if she knew the ‘buildings’ mentioned by Zahid actually were actually tahfiz schools and mosques meant to be constructed in Perak, to which she replied in the negative.
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