Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi's defence team told the court today that the 40 charges made against the former deputy prime minister were a clear case of selective prosecution with no prima facie.

Zahid’s lead counsel Hisyam Teh Poh Teik, at the High Court in Kuala Lumpur, said the court and law cannot condone selective prosecution which is inherently discriminatory.

“It is the prosecution’s version that the accused...