Anwar Sex Video: Experts Confirm It Is Genuine, Says IGP

KUALA LUMPUR: Local experts have confirmed that the sex video clip implicating a top opposition leader has not been doctored, said Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Ismail Omar.

He, however, declined to reveal the identity of the person featured in the video. The experts, he said, had handed over the full report on the video but he did not elaborate. “The most important thing is that we have received the report and we know it is genuine,” he told a press conference here yesterday.

The investigation is in its final stage and police are expected to hand over the papers to the Attorney-General soon for further action. Ismail said police had recorded statements from all parties involved in the screening of the sex video to the media last week. “We called in everyone to have their statements recorded, including media representatives who watched the sex video,” he said.

However, Ismail declined to respond to further questions from reporters but said more details would be revealed when the time was right. More than 20 newsmen were called to view the much talked-about video that has intrigued the nation at Carcosa Seri Negara, on March 21. The video apparently featured the politician with a foreign woman, believed to be a prostitute.

The 22-minute sex video was exposed by the Datuk T trio businessman Datuk Shazryl Eskay Abdullah, Perkasa treasurer-general Datuk Shuaib Lazim and former Malacca chief minister Tan Sri Abdul Rahim Tamby Chik. The next day, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim lodged a police report, saying that he was not the man in the sex video. Three people were arrested to facilitate police investigations but Ismail refused to reveal their identities.

Anwar Sex Video: Datuk T Trio Enter Mosque with Bullet-proof Vests; Eskay Swears Oath

KUALA LUMPUR: All three members of Datuk T entered Masjid Amru Al-As, Bandar Baru Sentul, for an oath-taking ceremony and the trio appeared to be wearing bullet-proof vests under their clothes. Only Datuk Shazryl Eskay Abdullah completed the sumpah laknat (oath-cum-curse) ceremony at about 4.20pm Friday.
Eskay swore that Datuk Seri Anwar and himself were the men in the sex video and that Anwar was the actor in it.

Some of the protesters outside the mosque

 

 

He said: “If I have committed slander then Allah will lay a curse on me." Chaos broke out again among the crowd when the three were escorted out. Earlier, chairman Abdul Razak Husin had said that he had been informed the ceremony was cancelled and had asked the rowdy crowd to leave. But the trio, Tan Sri Rahim Thamby Chik dan Datuk Shuib Lazim, turned up at about 4.10pm.

On Thursday, Eskay had dared Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to take the oath, together with him, that the person resembling Anwar in the sex video was indeed the opposition leader. The businessman had also invited those “who doubt the truth” to witness the ceremony at the Amru Al-As mosque in Bandar Baru. Meanwhile, Bernana reported that Parti Keadilan Rakyat vice president N. Surendran claimed that Eskay's oath-taking was an act of desperation.

He said that Eskay was trying to convince the public that he was telling the truth about the sex video featuring a man resembling Anwar. According to Surendran, the man in the video, which he had seen, was not Anwar.
"There are obvious and unmistakable physical differences, particularly the large and protruding stomach of the actor in the video," he said in a statement.