Malaysian anti-corruption officials Monday ordered former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim to produce the complete version of a video recording showing alleged judicial corruption or face arrest.

Anwar unleashed a furore in September when he released an edited eight-minute video clip in which a well-connected lawyer purportedly tells a top judge over the telephone that he would push his name forward for a senior appointment.

The government has set up an independent three-member panel to investigate the authenticity of the recording amid calls by opposition, lawyers and rights groups for a royal commission of inquiry.

After a three-hour meeting with Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) officials, Anwar showed reporters an order giving him until October 25 to provide the full recording, which he said would disclose the identity of the whistleblower.

The order said that if found guilty of violating anti-corruption laws, Anwar faces a fine of 10,000 ringgit (2,976 dollars) and two years in jail.

"The ACA officers received an instruction to issue an order compelling me to submit the original complete video tape recording, including the six-minute segment of the video that has yet to be viewed by the public," he said.

Anwar said he had already agreed to give the anti-graft body a "genuine copy" of the eight-minute clip and would try to persuade the whistleblower to agree to release the remaining footage but that this was unlikely.

"The guarantee of their personal safety and immunity from legal action are yet unanswered questions that must be addressed in order for the remainder of the tape to be released," he said.

Anwar said he had hired experts who have already authenticated the entire clip.

"It has been more than a month since this issue has been raised. I wanted to see how those accused have responded ... but they haven't denied it," he said.

Anwar was heir apparent to former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad until his sacking in 1998, when he was hit with sodomy and corruption charges that landed him in jail for six years.

The sodomy conviction was later overturned but the corruption verdict stands, barring Anwar from standing for public office until April 2008.

He is now an adviser to Keadilan, or the People's Justice Party, which is formally led by his wife.