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Friday, March 4, 2011

Cop: CID chief ordered Anwar’s arrest

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KUALA LUMPUR, March 4 — The police officer who led a team to arrest Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim on July 16, 2008, testified today that his orders came directly from Bukit Aman CID chief Datuk Seri Bakri Zinin.

Superintendent Ahmad Taufik Abdullah, who had personally arrested Anwar and brought him to the Kuala Lumpur police headquarters, said that orders were given to arrest the PKR de facto leader if he did not go to the police headquarters directly after leaving the then Anti -Corruption Agency (ACA) office in Putrajaya.

Anwar had met ACA officers in the morning to give a statement with regards to his “black-eye” incident back in 1998.

“Direct orders were given to assemble a team to arrest Anwar if he did not go straight to IPK KL,” Taufik said today.

He also claimed to have informed Anwar and counsel Sankara Nair of why the former deputy prime minister was being arrested that day.

“I arrested and told him it was under 377B of the Penal Code. I arrested him and told him to follow me,” said the police officer.

Anwar’s lawyer Karpal Singh said that merely informing a person of the provision of the Penal Code was not enough.

“Just stating the section is not enough, you cannot assume that the person will know what the provision means,” Karpal told reporters later. “You have to read out the whole charge.”

Taufik also admitted that he did serve Anwar with an arrest warrant, saying that it was with Pereira.

“The (arrest) warrant was with the Investigating Officer,” said Taufik.

Anwar’s lawyers have argued that several items obtained by the police from a holding cell where Anwar was held overnight on July 17, 2008 were illegally obtained, and want them to be rendered inadmissible, hence the reason for a trial-within-a-trial.

The trial will resume on Monday morning with both the defence and prosecution presenting their final submissions for trial judge Datuk Mohd Zabidin Mohd Diah to decide.

He is expected to pass a ruling on the matter on Monday itself.

The complainant, Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan, has said that Anwar, his ex-boss had sodomised him at a luxury condominium in upper-class Bukit Damansara here on June 26, 2008.

Saiful, now aged 25, has never named anyone else.

Anwar, the 63-year-old PKR de facto leader, is currently facing sodomy charges for the second time in his life.

He has denied the charge, describing it as “evil, frivolous lies by those in power” when the charge was read out to him.

He is charged under section 377B of the Penal Code and can be sentenced to a maximum of 20 years’ jail and whipping upon conviction. The trial is taking place 18 months after Anwar was charged in court in August 2008. - Malaysian Insider

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