Jailed deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim today lost his appeal against his conviction on four corruption charges.

In a brief two-sentence statement, Court of Appeal president Lamin Mohd. Yunus who sat with judges Ahmad Fairuz Sheikh Abdul Halim and Mokhtar Sidin, dismissed both the appeals against his conviction and six-year jail sentence.

"I propose not to read the judgment. Appeal dismissed on both conviction and sentence," said Lamin, despite having written a 59-page judgment.

"We however find no valid ground to depart from the finding of the learned judge below (Augustine Paul) and in the result we hereby dismiss the appeal against conviction. Accordingly the appeal against sentence is also dismissed and the sentence as passed is affirmed," the written judgement read.

Anwar immediately stood up in court and asked the judge, "Is it possible to give some resemblance to what the decision is on? It is a very important case. Just spend 30 minutes."

Lamin responded, "I don't want to hear anything" before adjourning the court.

"The judge doesn't have the courage to say something. They dismiss in one sentence without any reason. No bloody guts at all and they want me to call him (Lamin) your Lordship," Anwar added as the three judges left the courtroom.

"Let the court not be a tool of the executive. They are using the court to legitimise political persecution. I am appalled by that," he lamented as he hugged his wife and two daughters.

Later, Anwar's counsel Pawancheek Merican told reporters that his client has 14 days to file a notice of appeal to the Federal Court (the country's highest court) but he (Anwar) had to be consulted first.

Anwar later confirmed through his other counsel, Sankara N. Nair, that he would file the notice of appeal.

"We would do it, latest by Tuesday," Nair confirmed.

Anwar had earlier this year, filed his appeal to the Court of Appeal to overturn his April 1999 conviction on four counts of corruption and six-year jail sentence.

The three-member panel heard submissions from both parties from between Feb 28 and March 9 this year, making it the longest appeal hearing in the country's legal history.

High Court judge Augustine Paul had on April 14 last year jailed Anwar after finding him guilty of abuse of power in asking the police to get a retraction from two individuals, Azizan Abu Bakar and Ummi Hafilda Ali, who had accused him of sexual misconduct.

Anwar was found guilty in committing the offences at his former official residence between Aug 12 and 27, 1997.

Paul's decision came after 77 days of hearing with evidences from 47 witnesses.

Anwar is also on trial for sodomising his wife's former driver Azizan, together with his Indonesian adopted brother Sukma Dermawan Sasmitaat Madja, at Sukma's apartment in Tivolli Villas, Bangsar on "one night at 7.45pm, between January and March, 1993".

The one-time heir apparent to the prime minister post has repeatedly denied all charges and said they were fabricated by political rivals to end his political career.