Musa’s dropped lawsuit proves 1998 conspiracy real, says Anwar

By Md Izwan

October 16, 2012

 

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 16 — Former Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Tan Sri Musa Hassan’s decision to drop his defamation suit against Datuk Seri Anmwar Ibrahim proves there was a government plot to fabricate evidence over the 1998 Sodomy I charges, the opposition leader said today.

Anwar says Musa’s withdrawal proves there was a conspiracy. — File pic

Musa had earlier this morning told the High Court he was withdrawing his suit and had agreed to settle his case out of court, saying he had been there was a “misunderstanding” over his role in the 1998 “black eye” incident where Anwar had been beaten up by the then-IGP Tan Sri Abdul Rahim Noor while in the police lock-up, which left him with bruises, in the run-up to the former deputy prime minister’s high-profile first sodomy trial.

 “I am thankful and satisfied by the withdrawal of the suit.

“But the question that now arises is that this proves there was a conspiracy and a fabrication of evidence in my prosecutionm in 1998,” the PKR leader told reporters outside the courtroom.

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