Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has agreed to a settlement over his defamation suit against MCA Youth chief Wee Ka Siong at the Kuala Lumpur High Court has today.

PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim pkr fund raising dinner 1 Anwar’s lawyer J Leela said an out of court settlement has been reached but details remain confidential.

"Terms and settlement condition remain confidential. There is no order (yet) as to costs," she told reporters.

"Following this we apply that the trial dates set in September to be vacated."

Ben Chan represented Wee in the RM10 million defamation suit.

On April 18, 2008, Anwar filed the suit claiming that Wee had uttered defamatory words during the latter’s campaign at a ceramah in the Machap by-election of 2007.

The suit was filed three days after Anwar’s five-year ban from active politics expired.

His sodomy conviction was quashed in 2004 upon appeal to the Federal Court and he was freed. By then, he had already completed his six-year jail sentence for corruption.

Anwar was also acquitted of a second sodomy charge last January.