Kuala Lumpur - Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim on Tuesday lodged a police report against the country's police chief and attorney general for their alleged role in falsely charging him of corruption and sodomy in 1998.

Anwar, who was forced to face yet another sodomy allegation over the weekend, filed his report at the police station in the central Selangor state.

He is due later to hold a press conference, while party officials have said a public rally has been planned for Tuesday night.

On Saturday, a former male aide lodged a report alleging that Anwar had sodomized him.

The former deputy prime minister refuted the allegations, saying that the report was a "desperate attempt" to prevent him from exposing the national police chief Musa Hassan and Attorney General Gani Patail for their alleged role in framing him on the 1998 charges.

Anwar, who says the latest sodomy allegations are yet another attempt by the government to end his political career, had sought refuge at the Turkish embassy on Sunday after he claimed to have received death threats.

He left the embassy late Monday after the government gave its assurance that he and his family would be given protection.

Police have said they have no plans to arrest Anwar, but would be calling him to give a statement on the allegations by 23-year-old Mohamad Saiful Bukhari Azlan who claimed Anwar sodomized him on several occasions.

Sodomy is punishable by up to 15 years' imprisonment in the predominantly Muslim country.

Anwar's lawyers on Monday filed counter charges saying the aide had lodged a false, malicious and libellous police report.

Former premier Mahathir Mohamad fired Anwar 10 years ago amid the corruption and sodomy accusations. He was convicted on both charges, but the sodomy conviction was subsequently overturned and he was released from prison in 2004.

Anwar, 60, has maintained the sodomy and corruption charges were trumped up to avert a political challenge to Mahathir. (dpa)