KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 3 -- Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has filed to be acquitted and discharged from all 47 charges of embezzlement, corruption and money laundering linked to Yayasan Akalbudi funds.

According to Berita Harian, the application was submitted to the High Court on January 28, naming the Public Prosecutor as respondent, following the Attorney General's decision on January 8 to take no further action (NFA) on the 47 charges.

Ahmad Zahid's lawyer, Datuk Hisyam Teh Poh Teik, said the move comes after more than two years in which his client was released without being freed (DNAA) by the High Court.

"It's unfair for someone to have charges hanging over their head all this time. He needs to seek the truth," H...