A special unit will be formed to investigate a police report lodged by Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim over the emergence of a sex video allegedly featuring him, Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein said today.
“This unit will communicate directly with the Inspector-General of Police. I have instructed the IGP to be more professional, transparent and thorough in this investigation,” the home minister was quoted as saying by national news agency Bernama.
Hishammuddin (picture) said the case would be brought to the Bukit Aman police headquarters as it was a high-profile case and involved public interest.
Anwar, his wife and numerous other Pakatan Rakyat lawmakers have since denied the authenticity of the clip.
The PKR de facto leader has instead trained his guns on Hishammuddin and Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, accusing them of being involved with the video screening that allegedly shows him having sex with an unidentified woman.
Both the PM and the home minister had yesterday denied any involvement of the police and Home Ministry over the emergence of the sex video.
“He can accuse anyone but in the end all we want is the truth,” said Hishammuddin today.
IGP Tan Sri Ismail Omar also confirmed today that police have begun investigations into Anwar’s police report.
Ismail said the case was being investigated under section 292 of the Penal Code under possession and distribution of pornographic material.
The IGP said he had received Anwar’s police report but refused to elaborate.
A man claiming to be the mysterious “Datuk T” behind the screening of the sex video emerged again today, and said he would not surrender his recording to the opposition leader, his wife or any authority.
Instead, he pledged to give a copy of the 21-minute long video and the Omega watch supposedly belonging to Anwar to an independent commission, which he urged all media and non-governmental organisations to jointly form to investigate the authenticity of the clip.
During yesterday’s screening to selected media personnel at a prominent hotel here, the unidentified man had promised to surrender a copy of the video to Anwar and his wife Datin Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail next Monday.
This, he had said, was to enable the duo to identify the man in the video and subsequently to announce their resignations.
Despite deciding not to surrender the video to Anwar and Wan Azizah, Datuk T pledged to stick to his promise that the recordings will be kept away from the hands of the authorities.
This, he predicted, was because any police involvement would likely invite further denials from Anwar.
Datuk T first emerged yesterday to reveal the video recording of a man resembling Anwar engaging in sex acts with a woman, believed to be a prostitute from China.
According to Datuk T, the video was taken on February 21 from closed-circuit television camera recordings found in a hotel room in Kuala Lumpur.
The black-and-white video was shown in several parts, beginning with the politician, a woman with East Asian features, and another unidentified man in a hotel room.
The second part, recorded from four slightly different angles, showed the man receiving oral sex from the woman and then having sexual intercourse with her in several positions.
This is not been the first time the opposition leader has been accused of having affairs, but analysts say the latest accusation might prove to be the breaking point for the federal opposition.
Anwar was sacked as deputy prime minister in 1998 and charged and convicted of sodomy. He spent six years in prison before the country’s top court overturned the conviction in 2004.
After his release, Anwar led his PKR, DAP and PAS to record gains in Election 2008, denying Barisan Nasional (BN) its traditional two-thirds parliamentary majority and cemented the three parties’ status as serious challengers for power with the formation of the PR pact.
But he was arrested later the same year and charged again in court on another sodomy accusation involving a former male aide, a charge he has denied.
So far Anwar has remained defiant in the face of the latest scandal, and despite the bleak outlook his supporters point out that he has made at least one improbable comeback in his career after he was jailed and could still do so.
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There are so many sex videos in the markets, readily available, why no special investigations and why special investigations on this one?
The Government had erred far too many times with all their atrocious actions and decisions. This video is to divert the attention of the Rakyat of the Lynas rare earth plant which is gathering momentum in its protest. This video is to divert the attention of the Rakyat of the nuclear plants planned for contstruction, this video is to divert the alleged enormous corruptions in the Government, particularly now in the coming Sarawak elections!
The Rakyat are too smart today, the Government are not creative at all, all they know is Sex, Sex and more Sex! Porah!
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