Anwar ups ante with police report against IGP, A-G

Anwar ups ante with police report against IGP, A-G

Tan Sri Musa Hassan

Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail

KUALA LUMPUR, July 1 — Facing fresh allegations of sodomy, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim will raise the stakes in his fight with the government by lodging a police report today against its police chief and top lawyer for faking evidence against him in a similar case a decade ago.

The opposition leader claims he has proof that Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan and Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail concocted evidence for his corruption and sodomy trials in 1998 and 1999 which kept him imprisoned until he was freed in 2004.

He is due to lodge the report at 2pm at the Shah Alam police station, his Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) officials said. They have painted his 23-year-old accuser as a government plant and a coffeeboy and not a political aide as claimed.

Saiful Bukhari Azlan lodged a police report last Saturday alleging Anwar had sodomised him in a Damansara condominium on June 26 and other occasions abroad. Anwar denies the sodomy complaint and said it was to destroy his political comeback and distract the people about problems blighting the country.

PKR has released a set of four photographs showing Saiful with Cabinet ministers and a political aide to Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak, whose office the party claims has plotted to kill Anwar. Anwar sought refuge at the Turkish Embassy on Sunday, saying he feared for his life but left late yesterday when the government guaranteed his safety.

Both Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Najib have denied Anwar's claims of framing him or to get him assassinated.