KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi (pic) has claimed trial at the High Court here to an amended charge of money laundering involving funds from charity foundation Yayasan Akalbudi. Still in the middle of his graft trial, which is into its 49th day, the Umno president claimed the amended charge was aimed at making his sentence heavier. "I understand that this (amended) charge is to increase my sentence. Thank you, I plead not guilty," he said after the charge was read to him here on Tuesday (March 9). Earlier, High Court judge Justice Collin Lawrence Sequerah allowed the prosecution's application to amend the 27th charge against the former deputy prime minister and ordered the new charge to be read out.