KUALA LUMPUR, April 22 — PKR accused the police of having political motives in their investigation into the sex video which allegedly featured Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
Berita Harian reported yesterday that a South Korean broadcasting agency was engaged by the Malaysian police to determine the identity of the man in the sex video.
The Umno-owned daily had quoted federal police sources as saying that “visual analysis and video technical results” had matched Anwar with the man in the video.
“Why are the police doing this when they have previously stated that the purpose of investigation is to find out the people responsible for screening the video?
“They are assuming the person in the video is Anwar. Why is that? Why not widen your search? Clear politically-charged motives on the part of the police,” PKR vice-president Chua Tian Chang told The Malaysian Insider.
“It should also be noted that the South Korean firm was engaged by and fed with information by the Polis DiRaja Malaysia (PDRM), whose leadership and their political masters have had a longstanding political agenda to smear the reputation of Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and end his political struggle for reform,” said Saifuddin in a statement today.
Anwar has maintained that he is not the man in the video.
Saifuddin accused Berita Harian of “sensationalising” the matter with its news report yesterday.
The PKR leader charged that the credibility of the police had been further “shattered” with the revelations made by former KL CID chief Datuk Mat Zain Ibrahim.
In an open letter to Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Ismail Omar last week, Mat Zain said he had investigated the first sex video scandal 12 years ago and suspected it was linked to the latest video.
He called for an investigation to uncover any similarities between the two cases, alleging there could be a possibility that the trio behind the latest scandal had played a role in the first video.
“Are the trio involved or played any role in the production or distribution of Sex Video I in 1999, seeing as they have been identified as having a relationship with Anwar?
“More so (former Malacca Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul) Rahim (Thamby Chik) who is believed to have cause for revenge as Anwar had accused the former Umno Youth chief of corruption just three months before Sex Video I was made public on November 24 and 25, 1999,” Mat Zain wrote in the letter.
He was referring to the “Datuk T” trio behind the latest video, namely Rahim, Perkasa treasurer-general Datuk Shuib Lazim and businessman Datuk Shazryl Eskay Abdullah, who took responsibility for the 21-minute recording, stating that their aim was to “show that a man who wants to be prime minister is not qualified.”
The mysterious “Datuk T” had first screened the video purportedly showing the opposition leader having sex with a Chinese prostitute on March 21.
“Regarding the four police reports made by Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim between July 9, 1999 and August 20, 1999 on the abuse of power and the obstruction of legal procedures by a retinue of major public figures including Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail... why has there been no further action on these police reports?” asked Saifuddin.
He demanded that the police investigate the similarities between the current sex video and the one which had purportedly been circulated before the 1999 general election.
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