Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim has demanded two news dailies to publish a former graft investigator’s SMS, to counter their reports alleging that the investigator was forced to exonerate Anwar of stashing RM3 billion in foreign accounts.
PKR political bureau member R Sivarasa said the letter of demand issued today to New Straits Times (NST) and Berita Harian also want the mainstream dailies to “pay a suitable sum to be determined for the injury done” to Anwar’s reputation.
On June 12, NST reported that a bank chief executive officer (CEO) had confessed to the Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA), the predecessor to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission, that Anwar had instructed him to channel millions of ringgit into the accounts of certain individuals and companies.
The daily quoted retired ACA investigation director Abdul Razak Idris saying that he signed the statutory declaration (SD) dated Nov 10, 2009 freeing Anwar of blame, on orders from the latter.
However, at a press conference today, Sivarasa said they have evidence to prove that Anwar did not direct Abdul Razak to make the SD clearing the latter of the wrongdoing.
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