It is understood that the police are looking to record further statements from Yusoff.

Yesterday, he spent some eight hours at the Bukit Aman police headquarters accompanied by lawyer Haniff Khatri Abdulla.

Police are investigating Yusoff’s allegations under Section 354 of the Penal Code, a provision on the use of criminal force to outrage a person’s modesty.

Yusoff, 26, was a research assistant at Anwar’s office in Petaling Jaya until earlier this year, when he claimed he was assaulted by the Port Dickson MP’s political secretary, Farhash Wafa Salvador Rizal Mubarak. He has since slapped a civil suit against Farhash, although Farhash denies the accusations.

At a press conference streamed on Facebook Live on Dec 4, Yusoff claimed that a senior politician had committed a crime against him which he described as “un-Islamic, vile, insidious and morally repugnant”.

Anwar strongly denied the claim, calling it baseless and politically motivated. He also instructed his lawyer Ramkarpal Singh to take legal action.