Aide says Malaysia ex-deputy PM offered him money after sex

Mohamad Saiful Bukhari Azlan, 24, speaking on the third day of the 62-year-old former deputy premier's trial, said Anwar angrily rejected his resignation a day after the two men had allegedly had illicit sex in June 2008.

"Anwar asked me to stay and made a counter-offer, offering to pay for my full-time education while continuing to work for him and getting pay," Saiful said after prosecutors presented new evidence, including internal swabs and a tube of sexual lubricant said to have been used by the pair.

"At that point, I was afraid to object, so I agreed," said Saiful, who filed a police report and submitted himself to medical examinations after Anwar allegedly made the financial offer.

Prosecutors displayed the underwear that Saiful claimed to have worn when Anwar had sex with him in an apartment three months after landmark opposition gains in the March 2008 general elections.

Anwar, who was arrested in 1998 on sodomy and corruption charges but made a stunning comeback after being freed from prison in 2004, says the new charge, punishable by 20 years' jail, is an attempt to end his political career.