FOREX RCI | Jailed former opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim is expected to testify before the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) probing Bank Negara's foreign exchange (forex) losses tomorrow.
His lawyer R Sivarasa said this is based on the conducting officer's witness list.
"According to the witness list, he's to testify tomorrow," Sivarasa told reporters on the sidelines of the commission's fifth day of hearing in Putrajaya this morning.
Anwar, who was finance minister during that period, had denied involvement in Bank Negara's decisions that led to the purported losses.
On the first day of the hearing, former Bank Negara assistant governor Abdul Murad Khalid had testified that he briefed Anwar on the matter in 1994 during a flight to Hawaii.
He claimed that Anwar had told him that he (Anwar) would need to resign if the actual losses were made public. Anwar denied this.
Following Murad's claim, Sivarasa pointed out that Anwar was already briefing Parliament in 1993 on the forex losses.
Both Anwar's lawyer Gurdial Singh Nijar and former premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad's lawyer Mohamed Haniff Khatri Abdulla had told reporters last week that they had asked the commission whether the two leaders would be called.
Haniff said the conducting officers could not confirm Mahathir's presence because the decision rests with the commissioners.
Gurdial noted that the officers had told him that they would let him know if Anwar would be called.
Anwar had then expressed astonishment over the indecision by the RCI on whether to call him as a witness and said that it would be farcical if the inquiry is concluded without hearing his testimony.
Anwar was finance minister from 1991 until his sacking by Mahathir in 1998. Mahathir was prime minister from 1981 until 2003. - Mkini
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