KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court was today told that former deputy prime minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi spent a total of RM40,051.36 using two credit cards on transactions in foreign countries between 2014 and 2015.
Anoop Singh, the head of fraud and dispute management at Maybank, said the bank’s records showed that Zahid’s Visa Platinum and American Express Platinum (Amex) cards were used in Kiev (Ukraine) and Seoul (South Korea) between 2014 and 2015.
“For the Visa credit card statement, dated Aug 24, 2014, a few transactions were made in Kiev and the total amount transacted was RM7,609.90
“Meanwhile, the Amex card statement of account, dated May 26, 2015, showed it was used for two retail and supermarket transactions in Seoul,” he told Zahid’s criminal breach of trust, money laundering and corruption trial.
Anoop added that another RM1,810.66 was charged to the Amex card in June 2015, in Seoul.
However the bank officer did not say what services or products Zahid had spent on when using the credit cards.
Anoop said Zahid had been using the bank’s credit card service since March 8, 2004 and, to his knowledge, “the bank did not receive any dispute on the billing or complaint of unauthorised transaction from the cardholder”.
Deputy public prosecutor Lee Keng Fatt then said the prosecution wished to continue questioning Anoop on another day as well as to tender the related bank statements on the next trial date.
High Court judge Collin Lawrence Sequerah allowed the trial to adjourn until Dec 2.
Earlier today, Zahid’s former officer, Muhammad Nabil Saleh, testified that he was appointed as one of the trustees of Yayasan Akalbudi in 2012 and that he knew the foundation was set up for charity purposes.
To a question by Zahid’s lawyer, Ahmad Zaidi Zainal, on whether he knew what projects and activities the former prime minister sponsored using his own money, Nabil said he knew about some of the projects and activities but not all of them.
However, Nabil said he was not sure of the exact amount of money that Zahid had spent on all the projects and activities, when pressed by Lee.
“I assumed the money came from Datuk Seri (Zahid) and Yayasan Akalbudi,” he added.
Zahid faces 47 charges over alleged CBT involving Yayasan Akalbudi funds, money laundering as well as accepting bribes for various projects during his tenure as home minister.
Another 40 corruption charges over the home ministry’s contract for the foreign visa system were filed against him in the Shah Alam Sessions Court earlier this year. - FMT
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