Anwar Ibrahim and DNA Profile Of "Male Y"

Anwar Ibrahim and DNA Profile Of "Male Y".

Samples found in former aide's anus came from Opposition Leader, court is told.

Anwar is being tried over allegations by a 25-year-old former aide, Mohamad Saiful Bukhari, who said he was sodomised by the 63-year-old father-of-six at an upmarket condominium in June 2008. Anwar Ibrahim case DNA Profile Of "Male Y". Anwar's top counsel Karpal Singh made the comments in court in a bid to persuade the trial judge to rule that there was no case to answer.

Prosecutors charged in a Kuala Lumpur High Court today that DNA samples taken from the anus of Mohamad Saiful Bukhari Azlan belong to Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim.

Lead prosecutor Mohamad Yusof Zainal Abidin told the court that samples taken from three items in a cell where Anwar was jailed overnight in July 2008 matched the "Male Y" DNA profile that government chemists had found on swabs in examining Saiful.

"It confirms the unknown contributor Male Y is Datuk Seri Anwar," Yusof said. "This shows there is a prima facie case" that would require Anwar to put on a defense against charges brought against him in the long-running case, which has been dubbed Sodomy II. Anwar was convicted of sodomy and corruption in a 1998 trial and spent six years in prison on charges that were regarded as specious and rigged to remove him from politics.

Anwar refused to provide DNA samples in the current case, charging that samples were manipulated in the 1998 case. Under Malaysian law when Anwar was arrested in 2008, suspects had the right to refuse to give samples. However, the government pushed a law through parliament following his arrest to compel suspects to provide samples whether they wanted to or not.

Accordingly, officials used DNA samples taken from a towel, toothbrush and mineral water bottle used by the opposition leader in the jail cell in 2008.

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