``For the record, we have information that there is no such report dated September 3, 1997, addressed to the prime minister (Mahathir Mohamad),'' chief prosecutor Abdul Gani Patail told the court.

Anwar's defence team alleges that the report was written by outgoing police intelligence chief Mohamad Said Awang and contains the names of several top officials including cabinet ministers.

Defence lawyer Christopher Fernando told the court they were looking for the report and agreed to put the matter on hold providing Said can be recalled later.

Anwar, who was sacked as deputy premier and finance minister by Mahathir on September 2, has pleaded not guilty to 10 charges of corruption and sodomy. He alleges he is the victim of a conspiracy to discredit him.

Presiding judge Augustine Paultold Gani he should call some serving police officers to confirm Said's testimony that there was no September report.

In a coup for the defence, a report written in August 1997 by Said into the allegations of sexual misconduct by Anwar was produced in court on Friday. In it Said wrote that the accusations against Anwar were baseless and part of a smear campaign. He also acknowledged that Anwar's accusers, his driver and the sister-in-law of his former private secretary, could have been unwitting pawns in a conspiracy. But his report did not contain the names of those alleged to have led the conspiracy, and the defence has requested that another report purportedly written in September be produced as evidence. Said is the first witness for the prosecution, which intends to call 52 people including Mahathir to the stand. The current trial is hearing four charges that Anwar corruptly used his influence to quash a police investigation into the sex accusations.

Anwar claims he has proof of plot:Time

NEW YORK: Sacked Malaysian deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim has said in an interview that he would ultimately be vindicated on charges that range from corruption to sexual misconduct. Time magazine quoted Anwar as saying in a written interview, smuggled out of prison and released on Sunday, that the charges, including that he is a homosexual, amounted to a ``vile character assassination'' aimed at keeping him off from prime ministership.

``I've produced evidence to prove a high-level conspiracy against me. The allegations include all forms of sexual misconduct, corruption, treason, complicity in a murder and other heinous crimes. Ultimately I will be vindicated,' he said. Anwar, who is being held in solitary confinement, said he was ``severely beaten on the head, neck and face, rendering me somewhat unconscious'' after his arrest on September 20. Later he was told that Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad was ``monitoring developments by the minute''.