Malaysian opposition leader accuses the Government

Anwar Ibrahim, the charismatic Malaysian opposition leader, accused Kuala Lumpur on Friday of hiding information about the missing flight MH370, saying that the Malaysian radar system would have detected any change of the direction of flight.

In an interview with the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph, Anwar Ibrahim declares himself "stunned" that Marconi's sophisticated radar system that Malaysia has and which he approved when he was the finance minister in 1994, did not detect the device immediately after it changed the direction of the flight.

He said that "not only unacceptable but also impossible feasible" for a traverse device to pass "at least four Malaysian provinces without being detected." "I think the government knows more than us," he added.

"We do not have sophisticated equipment like that of the U.S. or UK, but we have the capabilities to defend our borders," he said.

Anwar Ibrahim defended the pilot, sugar Ahmed Shah, aged 53 , who is friend and member of his party.

"He could not hide the radar reading. He could not order the Air Force to remain completely silent," he said.

Anwar Ibrahim was convicted on appeal in early March for sodomy, a new phase of a case that seeks, according to him, to discredit him.

The Court of Appeal agreed with the Government, which called for the acquittal of Anwar Ibrahim in 2012. He was accused of sodomizing a former aide, a crime punishable by 20 years in prison in Malaysia, a Muslim-majority country.

Former deputy prime minister, aged 66 years, constantly denied these allegations and stated that a business is "purely political".