Kuala Lampur, Oct. 22 -- Former PAS deputy president Datuk Nasharudin Mat Isa who had fashioned himself a pious intellectual Islamic man during his political career and while he was head of the Global Moderates Movement Foundation (GMMF) - the brainchild of former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak - today claimed trial to 33 money laundering charges, directly and indirectly.

The charge sheet was a lengthy one and detailed the various ways the 56-year-old allegedly used public money allocated by the government for charities and for intellectual discourses meant to combat extremism on himself and his family instead.

Among the alleged financial abuses that stood out were splurging money allocated for the Wasatiyah Centre for Peace Sdn ...