KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s High Court on Monday (Sep 4) granted a request from prosecutors to drop all corruption charges against the country's Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi in his charity foundation graft case. The court granted Ahmad Zahid, who was facing 47 charges of criminal breach of trust
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s High Court on Monday granted a request from prosecutors to drop all corruption charges against the country's Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi in his charity foundation graft case.
When the court grants a discharge not amounting to an acquittal, it means that the accused is discharged from the current charges without being acquitted of them. “My family and I are grateful to God because the court decided to drop the 47 charges against me,” the deputy prime minister was quoted as saying by Free Malaysia Today outside the High Court after the charges against him were dropped.
Ahmad Zahid, 70, was facing 47 charges - 12 for CBT, eight for bribery and 27 for money laundering - involving tens of millions of ringgit belonging to Yayasan Akalbudi .
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