Anwar`s accuser under Malaysian police protection

"He asked for it (the security measures). He said he was threatened and he is worried about his life," Bakri told AFP.

"He lodged a police report so under the constitution he has the right to ask for protection. He needs protection, so we have to provide it to him," he said.

The young man has not been seen in public since July 2, shortly after lodging the police report which accused Anwar of sodomy -- the same charge that saw the opposition leader jailed a decade ago.

The claim threatened to derail a stunning political comeback by Anwar, who was sacked as deputy premier in 1998 and jailed on sodomy and corruption allegations that he said were politically motivated.

In a bizarre series of claims and counter-claims, Anwar last week organised a press conference by a private investigator who linked Najib with a Mongolian woman who was brutally murdered in 2006.

A close friend of Najib is on ...