Kuala Lampur, Dec. 4 -- Cheques used to pay Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi's extensive AmBank credit card bills may not have been hand signed by the former minister himself, but could have used a signature stamp of its likeness, his lawyer suggested suggested in court yesterday.

At the Umno president's trial on 47 charges of misappropriating RM31 million from a charity organisation, his defence lawyer Hisyam Teh Poh Teik also highlighted that one of these payments could have been done while Zahid was abroad and may not have been paid by him personally.

HIsyam was cross-examining AmBank senior vice-president Yeoh Eng Leong over 37 payments through local cheques totalling more than RM1.29 million over a two-year period between January 2014...