Zahid trial: Cash-to-cheques scheme is money laundering, says witness

ZAHID TRIAL | The RM7.5 million received by money changer Omar Ali Abdullah that was turned into cheques made out to Messrs Lewis & Co was a form of money laundering, the Kuala Lumpur High Court heard today.

This was said by MACC investigating officer Mohd Fahmee Mohamad Nor when re-examined by deputy public prosecutor Harris Ong Mohd Jeffery Ong, who was probing why the MACC did not investigate Yayasan Al-Bukhary.

Omar, in July last year, told the court that he...