PUTRAJAYA: Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim filed an application yesterday to have former Commercial Crime Investigation Department director Datuk Ramli Yusuff testify before the sodomy review hearing to prove there was a political conspiracy against him.

The application was filed by Anwar’s lawyer N Surendran in the Federal Court yesterday morning.

Surendran said Ramli would be called as a witness as his testimony in lawyer Rosli Dahlan’s suit against 17 defendants touched on a conspiracy in the “black eye” incident during investigations into Anwar’s first sodomy case.

“All the main characters in Sodomy I are also key players in Sodomy II, lending credence to Anwar’s argument of a political conspiracy against him,” he said.

Anwar in his application said Ramli, in a sworn statement dated May 27, had “strongly supported the conclusion that he is a victim of political conspiracy and false declarations”. Ramli allegedly said the former attorney-general (A-G) Tan Sri Mohtar Abdullah, current A-G Tan Sri Gani Patail and former police chief Tan Sri Musa Hassan had conspired in Anwar’s black eye incident in 1998, when Anwar was attacked by then inspector-general of police Tan Sri Rahim Noor.

According to Ramli’s statement, Anwar said the three individuals had ordered Ramli to lodge a police report against Anwar and arrange for a doctor to claim that he had tried to hurt himself.  — The Malaysian Insider

This article first appeared in The Edge Financial Daily, on June 11, 2015.