Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Anwar finishes with ACA, off to see cops (Update 2)

Wednesday July 16, 2008 MYT 12:49:58 PM

Anwar finishes with ACA, off to see cops (Update 2)

PUTRAJAYA: Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim came out of the Anti Corruption Agency (ACA) headquarters here at 12.10pm on Wednesday, saying he was satisfied with the ACA's line of questioning.

He said the ACA had not completed its interview, but he had to cut it short to make his 2pm appointment with the police to answer questions over the sodomy allegation made against him.

The former deputy prime minister said he had produced all the information required, but there just wasn't enough time.

"If I am arrested, I guess the ACA can do their follow-up interview at the lock-up," the de facto opposition leader joked.

Anwar had arrived at the ACA headquarters at about 10am over the reports he had lodged against the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) and the Attorney-General (A-G).

He was accompanied by his lawyers and a group of PKR supporters.

In his report lodged on July 1, Anwar had alleged that IGP Tan Sri Musa Hassan and A-G Tan Sri Abdul Gani Pattail had fabricated evidence in the “black eye” investigation in 1999.

Musa was the investigating officer and Abdul Gani led the prosecution in the case in which Anwar had been beaten up by the IGP then, Tan Sri Abdul Rahim Noor.

Musa and Abdul Gani were questioned by the ACA on July 11.

Anwar is now heading for the police headquarters in Kuala Lumpur to meet a 2pm deadline to answer allegations of sodomy.

On June 28, his 23-year-old former aide Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan had lodged a police report alleging that Anwar had sodomised him.

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