The owner of Berani & Jujur Trading, Junaith Asharab Md Shariff, told the Kuala Lumpur High Court today that former deputy prime minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi had never promised to award a MYEG project to his company.

Instead, the 36th witness at the Yayasan Akalbudi corruption, money laundering, and criminal breach of trust trial said the MYEG project was promised by Zahid’s (photo) younger brother Mohamad Nasaee Ahmad Tarmizi.

He said this during cross-examination by the defence counsel Hamidi Mohd Noh....