Anwar bids to strike out case

Anwar bids to strike out case

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters): Jailed former finance minister Anwar
Ibrahim said on Wednesday that government prosecutors had used
questionable tactics to try to convict him, and urged a judge to
throw out a sodomy case he faces.

In an affidavit filed by his lawyers, Anwar said Malaysian
government prosecutors had gone out of their way, after he was
sacked in September, to put him behind bars, acting
unprofessionally and showing bad faith.

Anwar and co-defendant Sukma Darmawan, facing charges of
sodomizing the Anwar family's former driver, filed motions asking
High Court Judge Ariffin Jaka to strike out the case. The judge
said he would take up the issue on Friday.

Anwar, once a step away from the highest political post in the
nation, was sentenced to six years in jail in April on four
corruption charges. Unless he wins his appeal, the prison
sentence will keep him out of public office until 2008.