The High Court in Kuala Lumpur today accepted a major portion of a witness statement by Ahmad Zahid Hamidi’s former press secretary in the former deputy prime minister's corruption trial involving Yayasan Akalbudi (YAB) funds.

Judge Collin Lawrence Sequerah, however, said the court allowed the prosecution's objection to three paragraphs, namely, the last line in paragraphs 17 and 22, and the whole of paragraph 18 to be...