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Fact-check: 'Last words of Augustine Paul' is fiction

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Following Anwar Ibrahim's swearing-in as prime minister last month, an essay which claimed to be the last words of the judge who convicted him of sodomy and corruption in 1999 has been circulating on social media.

However, the essay which reads like a deathbed reflection of the late judge Augustine Paul is likely to be fiction.

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