Anwar: Police protecting sex video culprits, asked politically-linked questions

Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim has accused the police of giving the distributors of the sex video that purportedly implicates him "protection".

"There was already distribution of a pornographic video and I think that the police gave the distributors protection. If not, it is impossible that the video clip can be distributed without police action and I had actually told the police about the crime of distributing pornography without pressure or action from the police," he told reporters.

He had been asked by the police to go to the Dang Wangi district police station to answer further questions about the sex video, which suddenly cropped last month ahead of the Sarawak state elections.

Three Umno members with links to Prime Minister Najib Razak and former premier Mahathir Mohamad confessed to screening the 21-minute video and claimed that they did so because they wanted Malaysians to know that Anwar was not fit to be a leader.

The 3 men calling themselves the Datuk T trio are businessman Shazryl Eskay Abdullah, former Malacca chief minister Rahim Thambi Chik and Perkasa treasurer Shuaib Lazim.

Anwar was accompanied by his wife and PKR president Wan Azizah Wan Ismail , his daughter Nurul Izzah who is also the Lembah Pantai MP and other top party leaders.

According to Batu MP Tian Chua, the police asked all sorts of questions.

“The questions asked by the police were political motivated and is coming from the Attorney General. The police has yet to arrest the Datuk T trio which leaves a trail of doubt from the people about their objectivity,” Tian, who is also PKR vice-president, told Malaysia Chronicle.