PKR leaders convene for a press conference at the party’s headquarters in Petaling Jaya, March 21, 2011. — Picture by Jack Ooi
KUALA
LUMPUR, March 21 — Pakatan Rakyat (PR) leaders have denied that the man
in a sex video that emerged today is Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
“This is a doctored video of Anwar,” said PKR communications director Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad.
A video recording showing a man who resembles a senior Malay
opposition leader having sex with a woman believed to be a prostitute
from China emerged today.
The 21-minute-long recording was shown to members of the media by a man who only identified himself as Datuk T.
Datuk T said that the February 21 video was from closed-circuit
television camera recordings found in a hotel room in Kuala Lumpur.
“It is not Datuk Seri Anwar. This is another attempt by Barisan
Nasional to give the public a perception of him as being an immoral
person that is incapable of leading the nation,” PAS political bureau
member Khalid Samad told The Malaysian Insider.
PKR vice-president Chua Tian Chang also claimed that Barisan
Nasional (BN) has become desperate, “shifting from major issues such as
elections and policies to personal attacks.”
During the screening this morning, Datuk T said he wanted the media
to watch the footage showing the politician before sending the copy to
him and his wife “to identify the person in the video” a week from now.
“We don’t want to involve the government in any of this. If he and
his wife do not resign, then we will call for an independent panel of
NGOs to conduct a forensic investigation into the video,” he said after
the video was screened.
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.
The sex acts lasted 17 minutes before the man exited to the right, which seemed to be where the bathroom was.
The woman, after wiping herself with some tissue, then rummaged
through the politician’s belongings, fishing out what Datuk T said was
an Omega watch.
Datuk T said the person who found the video, only identified in a
statement as “The Insider,” was instructed to head back to the hotel to
look for the watch after the politician had left the hotel.
“Upon close inspection, I found four well-hidden CCTV cameras,” The
Insider was quoted as saying in a statement which alleged that Anwar
was the man in the video.
Datuk T also showed an Omega watch to reporters, claiming that it
was the watch that had been reclaimed by his group of accomplices, who
also did not identify themselves.
Former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, in his recently
released memoirs, alleged that his then deputy had propositioned four
girls for sex in the 1990s.
Anwar, who is currently fighting a sodomy charge in court, had
immediately denied the claims, calling the long-serving former PM a
“blatant liar with selective amnesia”.
Most recently, current MCA president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek had
to resign as health minister after admitting that he was the man in a
sex tape that surfaced at the end of 2007.
In 1989, former MIC secretary-general D.P. Vijandran was forced to
resign as Dewan Rakyat deputy speaker after a sex video controversy.
