Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim 's conviction for corruption and sodomy can be relied on to state that the former opposition leader was not a good Muslim and of low moral, lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah said.
He said the defence of justification against the RM60 million suit filed by Anwar against his former tennis partner, Datuk Seri S. Nallakaruppan, was available due to the ruling two Federal Court benches.
Shafee said a Federal Court judge had also remarked that Anwar had homosexual tendencies although he was acquitted in the first sodomy case in 2004.
"The defendant (Nallakaruppan) is entitled to show Anwar's conduct and character through the court judgments and remarks made by a judge to dismiss the suit," the Umno lawyer said in his submission to allow the defence to raise the PKR facto leader's previous convictions during cross examination.
Anwar filed the suit against Nallakaruppan in 2008 over alleged derogatory remarks in the article, "Anwar terima RM60 juta" (Anwar received RM60 million) which were published in the Mingguan Malaysia and Sinar Harian newspapers on August 23, 2008.
In his statement of claim, Anwar said the defamatory words implied that he was a person of low morals and that he was not a good Muslim as the money was allegedly from gambling firm Magnum Corporation.
- TMI
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