KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has provided an alibi to police to establish he did not sodomize a male aide but power of choosing not give a DNA sample for fear it could exist manipulated to frame him, his lawyer said Friday.

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DNA evidence was fabricated when Anwar was similarly accused of buggery 10 years ago, and he does not trust the police not to do it again, his lawyer, Sivarasa Rasiah, said.

The new sodomy accusation against Anwar comes as the government is faced with growing public vexation by the ruling coalition, which suffered election losses in March to a resurgent opposition. Anwar has vowed to build without interruption that conquest and topple the government in September.

He was arrested on Wednesday and interrogated for hours over the accusation by a young male aide who claimed to have existence a victim of sodomy. Anwar was released Thursday in continuance bail, but remains a suspect in the contingency.

Sodomy, even between consenting adults, is punishable by up to 20 years in prison.

During the interrogation Anwar gave “filled details” of his alibi, Sivarasa said.

“We have given it in filled to the police. We know that they know everything that has to be known,” he before-mentioned, refusing to elaborate, citing the ongoing investigation.

He said Anwar allowed himself to have existence stripped during a medical examination and not only so had his body qualities regular. But he drew the line at giving a DNA swab, which he is not legally bound to do.

“Anwar has even more conception to credit of the probability that DNA make manifest will be fabricated again,” Sivarasa said. He suggested if Anwar was to give a exemplification, it could be planted forward the accuser, who is living in the state police supervision.

The accusation by the 23-year-old aide was a political bombshell, dealing a severe blow to Anwar’s resurgent three-party opposition coalition that won an unprecedented 82 seats in the 222-member Parliament in the March 8 elections.

The result reduced the ruling National Front compact’s strength to 140 seats, down from the two-thirds majority it enjoyed with respect to the last 41 years. Anwar now aims to engineer defections from the National Front to take over the rule by September.

He has dismissed the buggery accusation as a political plot to stop him from toppling the government. Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi’s ministers have denied any conspiracy in opposition to Anwar.


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