In a police report lodged today, Anwar Ibrahim alleged that two affidavits in the sodomy trial against him have been falsified.

He named DPP Hanafiah Zakaria of the attorney-general’s chambers and Razak Musa, the legal and prosecution division director at the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) as the two involved.

anwar lodge police report 210709 04 Anwar compared the contents of the affidavits against a parliamentary reply in March by Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Mohd Nazri Abdul Aziz.

Nazri had reportedly said a three-member independent panel set up by the Anti-Corruption Agency - now the MACC - had cleared then lead prosecutor Abdul Gani Patail and chief investigating officer Musa Hassan of any criminal involvement in Anwar’s black-eye incident in 1998.

The panel-members - former judges Abdul Kadir Sulaiman, Wira Mohd Nor and Ahmad Nor Abdullah - had found no case against Musa, according to Nazri. Only one panel-member felt that the Abdul Gani had a case to answer.

“But in the affidavits, Hanafiah and Razak both said that all three panel-members had found Abdul Gani not guilty,” said Anwar.

[Abdul Gani is currently the attorney-general, while Musa is the inspector-general of police.]

Anwar has claimed trial to a charge of sodomising his former aide Saiful Bukhari Azlan, 23, on June 26 last year at the Desa Damansara condominium.

‘Contradictory claim’

The report was one of two that he lodged at the Damansara police station at 3pm today. He was accompanied by lawyers Sankara Nair and Sivarasa Rasiah.

musa hassan and gani patail and aca In his second report, Anwar complained that the police have failed to act on his police report lodged in February against Musa, Abdul Gani and police officer Koh Hong Sun.

He claimed they had falsified their report on his arrest on Sept 20, 1998.

Anwar said Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein had told Parliament on June 22 that the police had transferred the case to the MACC, a day after they received Anwar's police report (lodged in February).

“I was surprised to learn that the MACC can no longer investigate it (in response to my letter to them)," he said.

MACC investigations director Shukri Abdul replied on July 10 that the matter falls outside the MACC's jurisdiction, and that the case had been sent back to the police for action.

"This proves that, as at July 10, the police had still not investigated (my complaint)," said Anwar.