Anwar Ibrahim quizzed

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s leader-in-waiting Anwar Ibrahim was on Thursday questioned by police over allegations he sexually assaulted a male former aide, the latest such scandal to hit the veteran politician’s career.

Anwar told AFP he was quizzed at national police headquarters over the claims by Muhammed Yusoff Rawther, which he has vehemently denied.

The lawmaker, seen as the likely successor to Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, spent almost a decade in jail after being convicted of sodomising a young male aide, allegations that supporters say were aimed at ruining his political career. Sex between men remains illegal under colonial-era laws in the Muslim-majority country.