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Ahmad Zahid Hamidi

Gender: Male
Born: 04/01/1953
Nationalities: Malaysia

Politically Exposed Person: Member of Parliament

Ahmad Zahid Hamidi is a Malaysian politician, Member of Parliament for Bagan Datoh and incumbent President of the United Malays National Organisation since 2018

Membership and Posts

Post	Label	Role	Organization	On Behalf Of	Start Date	End Date
President of UMNO	President of UMNO	Member	UMNO		2008-06-30
	Minister of Home Affairs	Cabinet Minister	Second Najib Cabinet	UMNO	2013-05-16	2020-05-10
	Minister	Rural and Regional Development Minister	Anwar Ibrahim Cabinet	UMNO	2022-12-03
	Minister of Defence	Cabinet Minister	First Najib Cabinet	UMNO	2009-04-10	2013-05-15
P075 Bagan Datuk	Member of Parliament for Bagan Datuk	Member of Parliament	Parliament of Malaysia - Dewan Rakyat	UMNO	2018-07-16	2022-10-10
	Minister	Deputy Minister	Anwar Ibrahim Cabinet	UMNO	2022-12-03

Family Relationships

Spouse of Hamidah Khamis

Parent of Nurulhidayah Ahmad Zahid

Sibling of Mohamad Nasaee Ahmad Tarmizi

Business and other Relationships

Biography

Notes

PEP Status Details

Member of Parliament

Subitems

UMNO Online - Dato’ Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi (Source)

Father of Nurul Hidayah Ahmad Zahid (Relationship)

Zahid vouches for Nazri, says Ismail's govt nominated him as envoy (Source)

Zahid defends allocations, denies 'normalising corruption' (Source)

Procurement

Infrastructure Projects

Cited on Issues

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Directly Implicated

Overseas Visa System
Chester Tay / The Edge Financial Daily (07 Jan, 2020). Alternative charges with lighter sentence for Zahid in visa system case

Yayasan Akal Budi Criminal Breach of Trust
Geraldine Tong, Malaysiakini (22 Mar, 2019). Court sets July date to start Zahid's trial

Yayasan Akal Budi Criminal Breach of Trust
Alyaa Alhadjri, Malaysiakini (20 Feb, 2019). Company linked to Zahid's latest CBT charge shut down after two years

Yayasan Akal Budi Criminal Breach of Trust
Khairah N. Karim, New Straits Times (08 Mar, 2021). Zahid's trial: Yayasan Al-Falah, a charitable foundation run by only three people

Indirectly Implicated

1MDB

Ahmad Naqib Idris / theedgemarkets.com (13 Aug, 2019). Jho Low and his four associates fled the country before change of government