Slamming the former party deputy for citing Anwar Ibrahim’s alleged sexual conduct for leaving the party to join PPBM, its vice-president Syed Badli Shah Syed Osman said Azmin should not accuse others of immoral conduct as he himself had alleged “moral issues”.
He also asked Inspector-General of Police Abdul Hamid Bador on the latest status of their investigations into the gay sex video allegedly involving Azmin.
“A year has passed. Have the police still failed to find any evidence to confirm the identity of the person in the video? I urge the authorities to announce the case’s status and not to be one-sided in protecting certain influential individuals,” he said in a statement.
In June 2019, a former PKR divisional youth leader, Haziq Aziz, claimed he was one of the people in the clips and had named Azmin as the other person in the video said to be taken in a hotel.
Azmin strenuously denied the allegation, saying the video was a “nefarious plot” to kill his political career.
Last year, Hamid said the probe on the video could not be continued due to technical factors. The then attorney-general Tommy Thomas also said he would not be prosecuting individuals implicated in the video, citing the inability to identify the individuals concerned.
However, Hamid also said police had not closed investigations into the gay sex video clip and welcomed more evidence.
Meanwhile, PKR Youth secretary Ahmad Syukri Che Ab Razab said the international trade industry minister was desperate to defend his position in the Cabinet, adding that many had started questioning his reputation.
“His attacks against Anwar are nothing more than an attempt to shift the attention away from his failures,” he told FMT.
In reply to a suit brought by voters in his Gombak constituency that he had breached his fiduciary duties by party hopping to PPBM and caused the fall of the Pakatan Harapan government in February last year, Azmin explained that he had lost confidence in Anwar’s leadership after sexual allegations about the PKR president had surfaced.
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