Anwar cites 'black eye' in arguing political conspiracy
Hearing into Anwar Ibrahim's Sodomy II conviction review application began in the Federal Court in Putrajaya today, nine months after he started serving his five-year jail term, with his lawyers continuing to cry the conviction as a political conspiracy.
Senior lawyer and former Federal Court judge Gopal Sri Ram submitted, in his argument to call former top cop Ramli Yusof to testify as a witness, that three key players in the Sodomy I case were also at play in Sodomy II.
Gopal named the three as former inspector-general of police Musa Hassan, former attorney-general Abdul Gani Patail and former senior assistant commissioner I Mohd Rodwan Ismail (who then was Najib’s aide de camp).
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