COMMENT The revelation of an on-going criminal investigation on lead prosecutor in the Anwar sodomy trial, Shafee Abdullah has cast serious doubt not only on the impending hearing of Anwar Ibrahim’s appeal against his sodomy conviction at the Federal Court on Oct 28, but also on the legal validity of Anwar’s earlier conviction by the Court of Appeal on Mar 7.

It was reported on Oct 18 that the Attorney-General’s (AG) Chambers issued an order as early as Jan 3, 2014 to investigate Shafee for having possibly made false affidavit in response to Anwar Ibrahim’s application to disqualify him, and that such investigation is still on-going.

The accusation against Shafee was made by former Kuala Lumpur CID chief Mat Zain Abdullah who claimed in his statutory declaration that some of the contents of Shafee’s affidavits were false.