Court allows bid to impeach defence witness in Zahid's graft trial

The Kuala Lumpur High Court today allowed the prosecution’s application to impeach the third defence witness in Ahmad Zahid Hamidi’s corruption trial involving Yayasan Akalbudi (YAB) funds.

Judge Collin Lawrence Sequerah said that Section 155 of the Evidence Act 1950 allowed the impeachment proceedings to be commenced as applied for by the prosecution.

“The section does not allude to...