Shafee bakal dedah hubungan Anwar - Mat Zain di mahkamah minggu depan The Malaysian Insider

Setelah lama mendiamkan diri, Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah (gambar) akhirnya berkata, akan mendedahkan hubungan Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim dan Datuk Mat Zain Ibrahim ketika perbicaraan kedua pemimpin pembangkang itu untuk mengenepikan dirinya sebagai timbalan pendakwa raya di Mahkamah Rayuan minggu depan.

“Saya akan membuat pendedahan penting semasa kes saman sivil oleh Mat Zain kepada Anwar dan sidang yang lain,” katanya.

Beliau berkata, Mat Zain tidak hadir ke mahkamah bagi mengikuti kes itu.

Shafee kini berperanan sebagai timbalan pendakwa raya bagi menjalankan permohonan rayuan Putrajaya menolak pembebasan kes liwat Anwar.

Pada 9 Januari tahun ini, Hakim Mahkamah Tinggi, Datuk Mohd Zabidin Mohd Diah membebaskan Anwar, 66, daripada pertuduhan meliwat bekas pembantunya, Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan di kondominium Desa Damansara, Bukit Damansara pada 2008.

Peguam kanan itu berkata, beliau memfailkan afidavit bagi menunjukkan bekas ketua Cawangan Siasatan Jenayah (CID) itu ‘condong’ kepada apa yang dikatakannya dalam akuan bersumpah (SD) 7 Oktober lalu dengan apa yang dikatakannya kepada Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

“Afidavit saya disokong oleh (bekas pengarah Jabatan Siasatan Jenayah Perdagangan) Datuk Ramli Yusuff. Saya tidak perlu tanya Matthias Chang untuk mengesahkannya dan tidak perlu menyusahkan Tun (Dr Mahathir),” kata Shafee kepada wartawan ketika diminta mengulas kandungan SD.

Permohonan Anwar untuk mengenepikan Shafee sebagai timbalan pendakwa raya akan didengar pada 19 Disember.

Minggu lalu Anwar memfailkan permohonan menggunakan SD yang dibuat Mat Zain sebagai hujah mengenepikan Shafee.

Anwar dan yang lain mendedahkan Shafee tahu salah laku Peguam Negara, Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail namun peguam itu sengaja menyembunyikan bukti terutamanya dalam kes perebutan Pulau Batu Puteh di antara Malaysia dan Singapura.

Selain itu, SD berkenaan membabitkan Abdul Gani dan bekas Ketua Polis Negara, Tan Sri Musa Hassan dalam mengadakan bukti kes “mata lebam” 1998.

Anwar dalam satu notis yang difailkan di pejabat pendaftar Mahkamah Rayuan berkata, Shafee tidak layak dilantik sebagai timbalan pendakwa raya untuk mengetuai pasukan pendakwaan.

Beliau berkata, Shafee tidak akan dapat mematuhi kelayakan Bidang Guaman (Tatacara dan Etika) 1978 bagi menjalankan rayuan.

Katanya, keadilan dalam perbicaraan tidak akan dicapai sekiranya Shafee mengetuai pasukan pendakwaan.

Pada 21 November, Mahkamah Rayuan menolak rayuan Anwar kerana Abdul Gani boleh memberikan kebenaran sementara kepada Shafee untuk mendakwa Anwar.

Permohonan pertama pada 28 Ogos berdasarkan pelantikan Shafee di bawah Kanun Acara Jenayah Seksyen 376(3) dan 379 kerana ia tidak sah.

SD itu dibuat setelah satu pertemuan di rumah Dr Mahathir pada 10 Ogos yang membincangkan pertuduhan bukti yang diubah dalam kes “mata lebam” Anwar 1998.

Turut dibincangkan ialah kekalahan Malaysia mempertahankan Pulau Batu Puteh daripada Singapura setelah dibicarakan di Mahkamah Keadilan Antarabangsa di The Hague, Belanda.

Turut hadir dalam pertemuan itu adalah bekas setiausaha politik Dr Mahathir, Matthias Chang dan Ramli yang mendedahkan penglibatannya bersama Abdul Gani.

Mat Zain memberitahu Dr Mahathir tentang pemalsuan bukti oleh Abdul Gani.

Dakwaan sedemikian muncul ketika peguam negara dikatakan membawa ahli patologi Dr Abdul Rahman Yusoff untuk menuduh Anwar di mahkamah bagi kenyataan perubatan yang berbeza.

Natijahnya, sebuah Suruhanjaya Siasatan Diraja ditubuhkan bagi menyiasat insiden mata lebam yang membawa kepada siasatan bekas Ketua Polis Negara, Tan Sri Abdul Rahim Noor yang didakwa memukul Anwar beberapa jam selepas ditangkap pada 20 September 1998.

Pada 2008, Anwar membuat laporan polis terhadap Abdul Gani dan bekas ketua polis negara Tan Sri Musa Hassan kerana terlibat dalam kes liwat pertama yang dibuat terhadap Anwar.

Pertuduhan pemalsuan dan salah laku Abdul Gani dan Musa bagaimanapun ditolak oleh tiga ahli jawatankuasa termasuk bekas hakim yang ditubuhkan Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM).

Dilaporkan dalam pertemuan bersama Dr Mahathir, Shafee bersetuju pelantikan jawatankuasa SPRM membebaskan Abdul Gani dan Musa adalah tidak sah.

Salinan SD yang difailkan pada 7 Oktober itu dihantar kepada Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Razak; Ketua Setiausaha Negara, Tan Sri Dr Ali Hamsa; Peguamcara Negara, Datuk Idris Harun dan Ketua Polis Negara, Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar. – 11 Disember, 2013.

I’ll expose Anwar-Mat Zain relationship next week, says Umno lawyer

Umno lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah (pic) today vowed to expose the relationship between Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and Datuk Mat Zain Ibrahim, the former Kuala Lumpur CID chief behind a statutory declaration (SD) alleging wrongdoings of the Attorney General.

Shafee said he would do this next week when the Court of Appeal hears Anwar’s second application to disqualify him from leading the prosecution team in Putrajaya's appeal against Anwar's acquittal in the second sodomy charge.

"I will make an interesting revelation on a civil suit filed by Mat Zain against Anwar and the subsequent events," said Shafee.

The senior lawyer said he had filed an affidavit on what transpired in his legal firm and at the residence of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. Shafee said Mat Zain "slanted" what he had said in his October 7 statutory declaration.

"My affidavit is supported by former (Commercial Crime Investigations Department director) Datuk Ramli Yusuff. I do  not need  to ask Matthias Chang to affirm it, and there is no need to trouble Tun (Dr Mahathir Mohamad)," Shafee said when asked to respond on the contents of the SD.

The SD by Mat Zain was prepared following a meeting in Dr Mahathir's house on August 10 this year, attended by among others Dr Mahathir's former political secretary Matthias Chang, and Ramli, who briefed the former premier over his run-ins with Attorney General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail.

Anwar filed the application last week using Mat Zain's SD as grounds to disqualify Shafee, saying Shafee's appointment to lead the prosecution team would deny him a fair trial.

The PKR de-facto leader among others said that Shafee knew of Gani's illegal actions in the Pulau Batu Puteh territorial dispute between Malaysia and Singapore.

Anwar said the SD also pointed to Gani and former inspector-general of police Tan Sri Musa Hassan's involvement in fabricating evidence in the "black eye" incident of 1998.

The alleged fabrication took place when Gani was said to have brought in pathologist Dr Abdul Rahman Yusoff to accuse Anwar in court of self-inflicted injuries, contradicting medical reports. A Royal Commission of Inquiry set up later ended with an admission by former police chief Tan Sri Abdul Rahim Noor that he had beaten Anwar hours after his arrest on September 20, 1998.

Anwar had in 2008 filed a police report against Gani and Musa, who was involved in the first sodomy case brought against Anwar.

A three-member committee, comprising retired judges, formed by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), however, later cleared the duo. Shafee reportedly agreed during the meeting in Dr Mahathir's house that the MACC committee was illegal.

Anwar's second attempt to disqualify Shafee as the deputy public prosecutor in his trial will be heard on December 19.

On November 21, the Federal Court dismissed Anwar's appeal, declaring that Gani could give a temporary licence to Shafee to lead the prosecution. Anwar had then filed the application to dismiss Shafee based on the grounds that the appointment was illegal.

Anwar, 66, was acquitted by the High Court on January 9 last year on a charge of sodomising his former aide Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan at a Desa Damansara condominium unit in Bukit Damansara in 2008. - December 11, 2013.