Tuesday July 29, 2008 MYT 1:41:38 PM

Anwar: Drop the case

(The Star)PETALING JAYA: PKR adviser Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim claimed that the medical report leaked on Monday confirmed that the sodomy allegations against him were baseless and were politically-motivated.

He urged the police to stop their investigation and to send the medical report to the Attorney-General’s Chambers and classify the case under “no further action.”

The medical report from Hospital Pusrawi, signed by Dr Mohamed Osman Abdul Hamid at 2.14pm on June 28, was leaked on the Internet on Monday.

The report said that there was no medical indication that Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan, Anwar’s 23-year-old former aide, had been sodomised.

In the report, Dr Mohamed Osman had also recommended that Mohd Saiful go to a government hospital for further check-up.

Raja Petra Kamaruddin, editor of news portal Malaysia Today which first carried the report, also alleged that Dr Mohamed Osman had gone into hiding because the police wanted him to change his medical report to implicate Anwar.

The police have denied that allegation.

“We interviewed the doctor in the early stages of our investigations following the police report lodged by Mohd Saiful,” said Deputy Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Ismail Omar.

“But we did not arrest the doctor or detain him for three days as alleged by the Malaysia Today report. We don’t have any plans to do so either,” he said.

Stop the probe, Anwar tells cops

Anwar at this morning’s press conference at the PKR headquarters in Petaling Jaya. He is flanked by his wife Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Ismail and Anwar’s lawyer Sulaiman Abdullah. — Picture by Choo Choy Ma6

(Malaysian Insider) PETALING JAYA, July 29 — Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today demanded that the police stop pursuing their investigation into the sodomy charges against him.

The de factor opposition leader told a press conference that the leakage of a hospital report yesterday made a mockery of the police report lodged by a former aide who had alleged that Anwar had sodomised him.

The hospital report, posted on a news portal, claimed that a private doctor found no evidence of Anwar's aide being sodomised.

Anwar said today the ongoing investigation was nothing by a dubious and persistent attempt to incriminate him.

“How else can we fathom why the police during the last four weeks of investigation had overlook this critical piece of evidence,” he said.

He said his refusal to give a DNA sample has been vindicated in the light of the hospital report as the failure of the police to disclose everything had all but confirm their intention to frame him.