Kuala Lampur, Dec. 2 -- Six of the cheques that were used to pay for Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi's credit card bills did not carry his signature by hand, but could have been signatures stamped on using a stamp, the former minister's lawyer said today.

Zahid's lead defence lawyer Hisyam Teh Poh Teik told the court that these were the findings of an expert document examiner at the Department of Chemistry Malaysia who had examined the signatures on these cheques.

Teh had produced the chemist report dated February 28, 2019 and prepared by Siti Nur Musliha Mohamad Noor, where the expert found the signatures in a series of cheques including the six cheques had "similar characteristics as stamp impressions" and made the opinion that they wer...