Court dismisses Zahid's appeal to consolidate 12 CBT charges to 3

The Federal Court today dismissed former deputy prime minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi's appeal to consolidate his 12 charges of criminal breach of trust (CBT) to only three charges in his trial involving funds belonging to Yayasan Alkalbudi.

A three-member bench led by Chief Judge of Malaya Azahar Mohamed ruled that there was no contravention of Section 153 (2) of the Criminal Procedure Code as the section was not a mandatory provision...