IGP files defamation suit against Anwar (updated)


KUALA LUMPUR: The Inspector-General of Police has filed a defamation suit against Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim over the latter’s police report alleging fabrication of evidence in the “black eye” incident of 1998.

In his suit, Tan Sri Musa Hassan claimed the report was prompted by the one lodged by Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan alleging that Anwar had sodomised him.

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