PKR’s Permatang candidate is not part of the ‘court cluster’, said PKR information chief Fahmi Fadzil over the party’s decision to field Mohd Yahya Mat Sahri who is a former convict.

Yahya (above), who was former Selangor menteri besar Khalid Ibrahim’s special officer, was jailed for two years in 2016 for cheating businessperson Abdul Karim Munisar over a RM50,000 donation to sponsor an event.

Fahmi said that those in the ‘court cluster’ were politicians with...