Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim has again accused the government of having links with Israel, this time involving the federal police headquarters.

Debating the Supplementary Budget Bill today, he claimed that Israeli military intelligence agents had once been present in the communications server room at the Bukit Aman police headquarters.

"Two officers from the company (Asiasoft), were in the Bukit Aman server room around the clock, on the 2nd and 3rd floor, that's the contract."

azlan He said the agents were working in the guise of employees of Asiasoft Malaysia, a company engaged by local firm Masterplan Consulting Sdn Bhd to upgrade the police communication systems.

Anwar (PKR-Permatang Pauh) said the allegations were made by police director of logistics Mansuri Zainal and an anonymous high-ranking special branch officer in a letter to the Home Ministry.

"On Nov 25, 2008, the home minister was briefed at 4pm in the KLIA VIP room about concerns raised by the police, specifically, the logistics department and the special branch.

"This was the presence of Israeli military intelligence agents in the communications server room of Bukit Aman," he said.

Furthermore, he said, the allegation was repeated in a police report lodged by one 'ASP Suhaimi', but the case was not pursued.

According to Anwar, one ASP Sairah was ordered to investigate the case. However she was suddenly transferred out to Taiping after when some developments were seen.

After her transfer, the investigations stonewalled, he said.

More links to Israel

Anwar pointed out that the contract to upgrade the police communications systems from analog to digital was awarded to local telecommunications firm Sapura in 2001, but this was reassigned to Masterplan Consultancy.

Masterplan later sub-contracted it to Asiasoft.

It was during this time that the special branch sniffed out the irregularities in the scenario, he claimed. And, in May 2008, the special branch confirmed the involvement of Israeli agents in the project.

A special branch probe in August the same year also linked Asiasoft Malaysia to the Tel Aviv-based Asiasoft Global. It found that 30 percent of Asiasoft Malaysia was owned by Asiasoft Global Pte Ltd of Singapore which, in turn, was controlled by Asiasoft Global in Israel.

Anwar said the police logistics department had written to the Home Ministry legal adviser asking for the contract to be terminated because of the "threat to national security" and "the appointment of the sub-contractor without the government's written consent".

The legal adviser replied that the matter had been referred to the ministry’s secretary-general, the Malaysian Administrative and Management Planning Unit and the ministry's information technology unit.

However, the letter said termination of the contract could only be initiated on the orders of the highest-ranked police officers, added Anwar.

He had previously produced documents to back his assertions that international public relations firm Apco Worldwide had worked for the Israel government.

Apco has since denied any such links.

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