KUALA LUMPUR, July 30, 2008 (AFP) - A medical report cited by Malaysia's opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim which said no assault had taken place in a sodomy case appears genuine, according to a senior hospital official.

"It looks genuine," the private hospital's medical director Kamaruddin Ahmad told reporters Wednesday.

Based on the leaked document, Anwar Tuesday demanded police drop the sodomy investigation against him, which he alleges is part of a political conspiracy against him.

Anwar said the allegations by a young male aide, a repeat of charges that saw him jailed a decade ago, have been fabricated to disrupt his plans to seize power from the coalition that has ruled here for half a century.

The June 28 report has also been circulating on political websites. It showed there was no evidence that his accuser, Mohamad Saiful Bukhari Azlan, had been sodomised.

Kamaruddin, however, said the doctor who examined Saiful was not a specialist.

"He is not qualified to make any conclusions on sodomy," he said.

The hospital's general manager Wan Mahmud Wan Yaakob said the medical report which was published on Internet news portals "looks the same," as the report kept by the hospital.

Sodomy is punishable by up to 20 years imprisonment in mostly Muslim Malaysia.

Anwar, a former deputy premier who was sacked in 1998 before being jailed on sodomy and corruption charges, has said he plans to return to parliament later this year if a court orders a by-election near his home town.

The original sodomy conviction was overturned by the nation's highest court in 2004, but the corruption count still stands and prevented him from taking public office until a few months ago.

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