Malaysia’s former deputy prime minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi will know on September 23 if he can walk away a free man or would have to defend himself against allegations of graft in the Foreign Visa System (VLN) case.

THE GOVERNMENT will likely exercise absolute power under Article 44 of the interim charter to seize ex-politicians’ multi-billion-baht assets in connection with fake government-to-government (G-to-G) rice deals signed by former commerce minister Boonsong