Anwar Ibrahim had briefed Parliament in 1993, in his capacity as finance minister, on Bank Negara's losses at the foreign exchange market, said his lawyer R Sivarasa.

This, said Sivarasa, was a matter of public record and therefore would damage the credibility of former Bank Negara assistant governor Abdul Murad Khalid's testimony to the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) yesterday.

Murad had told the RCI that he had briefed Anwar about the losses in 1994 during a trip to Hawaii...