The brother of Australian cricket star Usman Khawaja has been charged by police after allegedly trying to frame a colleague with a fake terror plot notebook.
39-year-old Arsalan Khawaja was arrested in Sydney's west this morning ((tue)) as part of an investigation into the diary allegedly found at a Sydney university.
Arsalan Khawaja has been charged with one count of attempting to pervert justice and one count of forgery.
The arrest comes just weeks after charges were dropped against 25-year-old Mohamed Nizamdeen, who was wrongly accused of creating the documents.
Mr Nizamdeen was charged with a terror offence in August and spent four weeks behind bars, but the charges were later dropped when a handwriting expert could not prove he had written it.
NSW Police Assistant Commissioner Mick Willing said police felt "very sorry" about the time Mr Nizamdeen spent in custody, but stopped short of apologising to him.
