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Let A ∈ B(H) and B ∈ B(K). We say that A and B satisfy the Fuglede-Putnam theorem if AX = XB for some X ∈ B(K,H) implies A*X = XB*. Patel et al. (2006) showed that the Fuglede-Putnam theorem holds for class A(s,t) operators with s + t < 1 and they mentioned that the case s = t = 1 is still an open problem. In the present article we give a partial positive answer to this problem. We show that if A ∈ B(H) is a class A operator with reducing kernel and B* ∈ B(K) is a class 𝓨 operator, and AX = XB for some X ∈ B(K,H), then A*X = XB*.