Umno vice-president Hushamuddin Hussein has denied that lawyer Shafee Abdullah is using the 'Umno platform' to launch scathing attacks on jailed opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim.

Instead, Hishamuddin said that Shafee was merely 'defending himself' from accusations hurled against him from various quarters following the sodomy conviction against Anwar, for which Shafee acted as the lead prosecutor.