Anwar’s report against AG, IGP: Files with MACC

Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim will be writing to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission by tomorrow to inquire on the status of his complaint against those who had fabricated evidence against him in 1998.

Anwar’s lawyer and PKR vice-president R Sivarasa today told reporters that they have been informed that Anwar’s police report on the matter was sitting with the MACC now.

This information was made known to Sivarasa and Anwar by Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein in a written answer in Parliament on June 22.

“Your claim that no actions has been taken by the police is false. The authorities have forwarded the report to the MACC on Feb 21 for further action,” Hishammuddin had said in his reply.

Sivarasa was prompted to raise the question in Parliament after being unable to gain any answers from the police on the status of the case.

Anwar had lodged the police report on Feb 20 and so far has yet to hear anything from the police on the status of the case.

The nature of the police report was that Attorney-General Abdul Gani Patail and Inspector-General of Police Musa Hassan were allegedly involved in a conspiracy to fabricate an arrest warrant which led to Anwar’s arrest in 1998.

In his report, Anwar had claimed that he was arrested under Section 377B of the Penal Code for alleged unnatural sex but subsequently the police report on his arrest stated that he was arrested under the Internal Security Act (ISA).

He claimed that both Abdul Gani, who led the prosecution team in Anwar’s cases and Musa, who was the main investigating officer, had conspired to fabricate his arrest warrant.

First report on ‘black eye’

Talking to reporters in Parliament today, Sivarasa said Anwar has not been called by the police to provide his statement on the report.

Sivarasa added they had waited for the police to respond for two months and had written to police on April 23 to inquire on the extent of their investigation.

“Under Section 107(a)(1) of the Criminal Procedure Code we can write to the investigating officer to know the status of the report… but they did not reply,” he said.

“So I took the opportunity to ask the question the Home Minister and he now tells us that it has been referred to the MACC,” he said.

Sivarasa said that they were now going to write to the MACC by tomorrow to inquiry about the extent of their investigation.

Anwar had previously lodged another report against Abdul Gani and Musa in July 2008, claiming that they had fabricated evidence against him after he was assaulted by the then IGP Tan Sri Rahim Noor in a police lock-up.

MACC’s predecessor ACA had investigated and cleared both Abdul Gani and Musa of that accusation.

Anwar had followed up with the second report after nothing was done with the first report.

After being arrested, Anwar was subsequently charged and found guilty of corrupt practices and sodomy. He spent six years in jail and was released in 2004.

S Pathmawathy, Mkini