Shafee paid RM1,000 for Anwar’s sodomy case

Nancy Shukri revealed the price of being a lead prosecutor in one of the nation's most followed cases.

KUALA LUMPUR: Lawyer Muhammad Shafee Abdullah received a fee of RM1,000 as the lead prosecutor in the sodomy case of PKR advisor, Anwar Ibrahim, the Dewan Rakyat was told today.

Minister in the prime minister’s department, Nancy Shukri, said she had obtained the agreement of the Attorney-General’s chambers and Muhammad Shafee himself to reveal the amount after the matter was raised repeatedly in the house.

The matter was kept confidential to respect the ethics of professionalism and the confidentiality of communication between employer and client, she explained when replying to a question from Er Teck Hwa (DAP-Bakri).

Er had wanted to know how much Muhammad Shafee was paid as the lead prosecutor during the hearing of Anwar’s case in the Court of Appeal and Federal Court.

The Federal Court upheld a Court of Appeal decision convicting Anwar and sentencing him to five year’s jail after finding him guilty of having sodomised his former aide, Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan in 2008.

- BERNAMA