KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 4 — PKR communications director Jonson Chong will be filing a police report today against national newspaper, Utusan Malaysia allegedly for publishing “false news” on Sodomy II.
“I’m going to lodge a report against Utusan for publishing false news,” Chong, a lawyer by training, told reporters at the court complex here this evening.
He was rushing to the Tropicana police station in Merchant Square, Petaling Jaya, just two doors away from the political party’s headquarters.
A dissatisfied Chong said the Malay-language daily’s act was tantamount to contempt of court, despite the High Court’s earlier refusal to cite Utusan for the offence.
“The judge said: ‘If you want to take this up, go lodge a police report’,” Chong claimed.
“So we take it up to prove their intent was malicious,” he added.
PKR adviser, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, 62, is on trial for allegedly sodomising his former aide, Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan, 24, at an upscale condominium in Damansara Heights two years ago.
His lawyers had earlier made a bid to cite Utusan Malaysia for contempt for publishing a news article that is said to contain material that the trial judge, Datuk Mohamad Zabidin Mohd Diah, had ordered expunged from the court records yesterday.
Anwar, who spoke to reporters at the courthouse steps on his way out, lashed out at the influential Umno-owned newspaper for publishing the news.
“In this case, if there is already a charge, let me face a fair judicial system,” a grim-looking Anwar said, “but no.”
“Yesterday’s statement, we have checked our records, the prosecution’s and the court’s, there were no statements as mentioned on the front page of Utusan, meaning Utusan is a tool of Umno.
“They want to fight me in front, cannot, so they make a dirty, rude and disgusting false accusation,” the ex-deputy prime minister formerly from Umno railed.
*News from the Malaysian Insider.
Friday, February 5, 2010
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