Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has been given a discharge not amounting to an acquittal (DNAA) for the 47 charges against him in the Yayasan Akalbudi case.
The DNAA was given after the Attorney-General’s Chambers decided to discontinue the case against him, Bernama reported today.
The prosecution applied for the DNAA earlier today, while Zahid’s defence had argued for a full acquittal of the charges against him.
The prosecution’s application came weeks after deputy public prosecutor Raja Rozela Raja Toran, who had had several tense exchanges with Zahid during the trial, ceased leading the prosecution team.
Zahid had faced 12 charges of criminal breach of trust (CBT), eight of corruption, and 27 of money laundering involving tens of millions of ringgit belonging to Yayasan Akalbudi.
Among the CBT charges was that he allegedly settled his credit card debts using Yayasan Akalbudi through 44 cheques amounting to some RM1.3 million between January 2013 and December 2016.
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