Police nothing better to do, busy persecuting Anwar

The BN and Umno are using government machinery in trying to implicate Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim in another attempt of political persecution, PKR said today.

This follows the start of a police probe to take action against Anwar under Section 182 of the Penal Code for giving "false information to injure another person" The police probe is over Anwar's police report that concerned the 'Datuk T' sex tape, which was initially screened to several members of the mass media at a luxury hotel in Kuala Lumpur last March, before being uploaded on the Internet.

Subang MP Sivarasa Rasiah, who is also a PKR supreme council member, said, "Anwar has been asked to give his statement to the police this week, but we have persuaded them that it be done on Wednesday at the Kepong police station. The same person who took Anwar's report on the sex tape, DSP S Shanmugamoorthy, lodged a report against the opposition leader two months ago."

 

Sivarasa said that against this background, the move appeared to be yet another attempt at political persecution of Anwar and indications of such persecution have been there for the past couple of months, when Inspector-General of Police Ismail Omar indicated that police would initiate investigations against Anwar on his sex tape police report.