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Monday, January 22, 2018

ANWAR: COPS CONFIRMED KARPAL & I DID NOT BRIBE JUDICIARY, YET NAJIB’S STOOGE SALLEH KERUAK REFUSED TO ACT AGAINST UTUSAN, TV3 FOR ‘FAKE NEWS’

Anwar Ibrahim claimed that the authorities did not pursue the findings of a police investigation with regard to a report he had filed in September 2013.
The police report concerned an allegation that Anwar and his late lawyer Karpal Singh had bribed the judiciary.
Testifying in the High Court in Kuala Lumpur on his defamation suit today, the former opposition leader claimed that police investigations had cleared him of having a bank account in Singapore.
“They (police) found that such a bank account in Singapore does not exist despite the allegation made (on bribing the judiciary mentioning the account).
“This was revealed to me by the investigating officer when he came to investigate me at the Sungai Buloh Prison. I was expecting action to be taken against the defamation made against me, but I suppose those higher up did not.
“This is the state of the law in this country,” Anwar added during cross-examination by lawyer Hasnal Rezua Merican, who represented the former BN candidate for Permatang Pauh, Mazlan Ismail (photo).
The PKR de-facto leader said despite such a serious allegation made against him and the late Karpal involving the country’s judiciary, yet no action was taken by the the authorities.
Anwar, who also named Sistem Televisyen Malaysia Bhd (TV3) and Utusan Malaysia as defendants, said Mazlan, who now chairs the Malaysian Communication and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), did not take action despite knowing that he (Anwar) did not have such an account.
Although Anwar claims that Mazlan is MCMC chairperson, a check with the MCMC website revealed that he is now the commission’s chief operating officer.
Anwar was allegedly told this about the bank account when an investigating officer by the name of Zulkifli came to record his statement at the Sungai Buloh prison on Nov 18, 2015 – two years after he and Karpal lodged their report.
Questioned by his counsel Sangeet Kaur Deo earlier, Anwar said Mazlan was the former Permatang Pauh PAS Youth division chief, who later joined Umno and contested against him in 2013.
On Aug 2, 2013, Mazlan held a press conference, at which he claimed to have received 6,000 copies of a poison pen letter from a staff at Karpal’s law firm on the matter. This was reported by TV3 and Utusan Malaysia.
Following this, both Anwar and Karpal lodged police reports under Section 500 of the Penal Code for defamation.
The allegation that Anwar and Karpal had bribed the judiciary came after the former opposition leader was acquitted by the Kuala Lumpur High Court of his second sodomy chargein 2012, a decision which was overturned at the Court of Appeal and upheld by the apex court on Feb 10, 2015.
Anwar claimed the press conference held by Mazlan which was carried on the prime time news slot on TV3 on Aug 2, 2013 and on Utusan‘s front page on Aug 3, 2014, had meant that he was unethical and unprofessional.
It also meant that he was involved in corruption with the judiciary and the Attorney-General’s Chambers, that he was irresponsible and not qualified to hold public office and that he was insincere, a liar and immoral.
He said these were serious allegations as at the material time he was the opposition leader and were meant to destroy his political career.
Responding to questions from Sangeet, Anwar said that despite Mazlan saying at the press conference that he would give the poison pen letter to Anwar and Karpal, none of them delivered have been delivered until today.
“The allegations against us were given a lot of attention as it was aired on TV3‘s Buletin Utama and given front page by Utusan where else there were other things going on such as the 1MDB and also the Felda scandals,” he said.
“I remember at that time, there was an attack happening in Iraq (when the news was reported) but this was not given prominence,” he said,
When told by Hasnal during cross-examination that his client Mazlan did not utter the defamatory allegations as alleged in the poison pen letter, Anwar said they were carried in the TV3 and Utusan reports.
“Who then had distributed the (defamatory) allegations made in the poison pen letter?” asked Anwar.
Hasnal said he had instructions from his client to say that he did not distribute the poison pen letter to which Anwar replied that Mazlan had held the press conference and TV3 and Utusan carried the allegations.
He said it defied logic that the document (poison pen letter) was not given to them.
Anwar had filed the suit on Oct 15, 2015 against Mazlan, TV3 and Utusan following the airing of the report that alleged he and Karpal had bribed the judiciary and prosecutors after discovering no action has been taken on the police report they had lodged.
Karpal died in April 2014 in a road accident.
Today’s proceeding in court also saw 13 prison guards taking over the public gallery’s first bench.
Anwar’s wife, PKR president Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail was the only other person allowed to sit there.
The hearing before Justice Faizah Jamaluddin continues tomorrow with cross-examination by TV3‘s counsel TC Liew and Utusan‘s lawyer Azhar Arman Ali.
– M’kini

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