KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 11 — Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s and his wife’s statements were recorded by a policeman investigating Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s second sodomy case, the High Court here heard today.
Investigating officer (IO) Jude Pereira said Mohd Saiful Bukhari, who is accusing Anwar of sodomising him on June 26 2008, had met the prime minister two days before the alleged sodomy.
“He (Jude) got the statement... from both of them,” Solicitor-General II Datuk Mohd Yusof Zainal Abiden confirmed with reporters after the hearing today.
Yusof was referring to Najib and his wife, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor.
Jude said he had recorded Rosmah’s statement on July 17, 2008, but did not specify when he recorded Najib’s statement.
“He (Saiful) met Najib before the 26th on the 24th (June, 2008) to complain about a few incidents before that,” said Jude today without explaining what those incidents were.
Jude also did not specify the contents of the statements he had taken from Najib and Rosmah.
“What happened between 26th and 28th (June)?” asked Anwar’s lawyer Karpal Singh.
“He (Saiful) met a few (people)... complained to Rahimi (Osman), Ezam (Mohd Noor),” said Jude, referring to former PKR members.
Saiful testified last May that he had met Ezam, a former PKR Youth chief; Rahimi, Anwar’s former aide; and his uncle Tuah Mohd Halim on June 27 2008, to complain about the alleged sodomy.
Karpal also asked today whether Saiful had met Rosmah and Datuk Mumtaz Jaafar, a former national track star said to be close to Rosmah.
“Mumtaz got, right? Rosmah?” asked Karpal.
“Not very sure,” said Jude.
“Najib Tun Razak?” asked Karpal.
“No. After the incident, nothing,” said Jude.
“You took a statement from Datin Rosmah?” asked Karpal.
“Yes,” said Jude.
Rahimi claimed last October that he was forced to implicate Najib and Rosmah in Anwar’s ongoing sodomy trial.
Anwar’s former aide had said he was forced to sign two statutory declarations back on June 28, 2008 which accused Najib and Rosmah of masterminding a conspiracy against Anwar.
According to Rahimi’s police report, he claimed that he was forced to sign two statutory declarations by then PKR information chief Latheefa Koya as well as party members at Quality Hotel back in June 2008.
Latheefa currently heads the party’s legal bureau.
Saiful had complained that Anwar had sodomised him at a luxury condominium in affluent 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.
He was charged with sodomy and corruption in 1998 after he was sacked from the Cabinet and was later convicted and jailed for both offences.
He was freed in September 2004 and later resurrected his political career by winning back his Permatang Pauh parliamentary seat in a by-election in 2008, which had been held in the interim by his wife.
He led the loose pact of PKR, DAP and PAS to a historic sweep of five states and 82 parliamentary seats in Election 2008.
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