IN RUSHING TO SHIELD AZMIN FROM TOTAL DISGRACE, HIS MEN SHOW THEIR OWN LACK OF COMMITMENT TO REFORMS, PRINCIPLES: NO NEED TO SUE OR RESPOND TO HAZIQ, SAY AZMIN’S SUDDENLY-SHY LAWYERS – YET ONLY END UP BOLSTERING SUSPICION GAY SEX TRYSTS MAY BE TRUE

PETALING JAYA – Economic Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Azmin Ali’s lawyer will not respond to the challenge of legal action by Haziq Abdullah Abdul Aziz.

N. Surendran tweeted that neither he nor his client will act upon “attention-seeking taunts”.

“We do not act or respond according to such attention-seeking taunts.

“All legal responses are done as we see fit, according to our timetable & not imposed by others,” he said via his Twitter handle @nsurendrann on Sunday (June 23).

He was responding to Haziq’s challenge to Azmin to take legal action against him if the minister was confident of his own innocence.
In an exclusive interview with Haziq, The Star reported that the Santubong PKR Youth chief who caused uproar with his confession that he was the man in the sex video with Azmin, also challenged Azmin to lodge a police report against him.

“He should do it himself. Let’s have the entire evidence and details in the open,” he said.

To emphasise his point, Haziq spoke of how the police had recorded a statement from Azmin while his political secretary Muhammad Hilman Idham had made a police report.

Azmin, who is PKR deputy president, has brushed aside the sex video and called it a nefarious plot to destroy his political career.

However, Haziq reiterated that it was he and Azmin in the video clips of two men having sex.

The clips, which surfaced via WhatsApp on June 11, rocked Malaysia and generated countless headlines.

Haziq, who was the senior private secretary to the Deputy Primary Industries Minister, has since been sacked from the post.

He stood by his words again during the interview..

“I am not a liar. I want the matter to be brought open in the court so that Malaysians can see for themselves the evidence. Malaysians would then be able to see who’s telling the truth,” said Haziq, who is a lawyer.

He said that Azmin had made wrongful accusations against him.

“In fact, I am a victim of the situation. If I am defaming him, he has all the right to sue me in a court of law,” he said.

“Initially I did not have anything against Azmin as I thought we were both victims in the case.

“I got upset when Hilman tried to silence me and Azmin accused me of being planted by Umno and Barisan Nasional.

“I never said anything bad about Azmin. He should lodge a police report and sue me if I am defaming him.”

He also appealed to the police to wrap up the case as soon as possible.

— N.Surendran (@nsurendrann) June 23, 2019

– ANN