"Najib: Umno not involved in sex video, and Mahathir never lie and never steal a single penny."
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KUALA LUMPUR: Najib Tun Razak said today that Umno had nothing to do with the sex video alleged to involve an opposition leader.
“The question is whether the tape is authentic or not because if it is genuine, a sin had been committed. This is what has to be determined first,” the Prime Minister and Umno president said.
“There are those inclined towards conspiracy theories which distract from the core question of whether this sinful act occurred and was recorded,” he told reporters after chairing an Umno supreme council meeting here.
On the call for a royal commission to be set up to investigate the authenticity of the video, he said this was up to the government to decide.
Najib said that police must carry out an investigation that was thorough and professional, with experts brought in to help.
Najib said that the experts could help ascertain whether the video had been doctored.
“It is very easy to see and verify if a video had been doctored,” he added.
Yesterday, former Malacca chief minister Abdul Rahim Tamby Chik and businessman Shazryl Eskay Abdullah handed to the police at Bukit Aman the video together with an Omega gold watch, alleged to belong to the person seen in the video.
Najib said the meeting also discussed the party membership which now totalled 3,233,586.
He also said the meeting decided to lift the suspension imposed in 2009 on state assemblyman for Usukan in Sabah Japlin Akim for involvement in money politics.
- Bernama
Najib: Focus on sex video’s authenticity, not Umno’s role
The prime minister stressed that the police should be allowed to do a rapid and professional job to verify whether the video was doctored or not.
“People have been asking whether Umno is at fault but the main issue is whether the tape is true or false,” the Umno president told reporters after chairing a supreme council meeting.
“Raising the idea of a conspiracy is shifting the focus from the main issue of whether the recording was genuine,” he added.
Former Malacca chief minister Tan Sri Abdul Rahim Thamby Chik had admitted on Wednesday that Datuk Shazryl Eskay, Perkasa treasurer-general Datuk Shuib Lazim and himself were collectively the mysterious “Datuk T” behind the 21-minute sex video that was screened on Monday.
The involvement of the former Youth chief Abdul Rahim has led to accusations that Umno had doctored the video to undermine Anwar’s credibility.
PKR has also accused the prime minister of meeting the sex video trio on Wednesday in Parliament.
Najib also said that calls for a royal commission of inquiry into the video would have to be decided on by the government and not Umno.
“We only discussed the issue to stress that we are not involved in any way in any recording of this video,” he said.
He said that for now, it was up to the police to act in a professional manner so that the public would have confidence in the investigation.
“The police will have to show if there has been any doctoring of the video. Such doctoring will be easy enough to detect and determine,” he said.
Police today arrested Abdul Rahim and Shazryl in relation to the video while Shuib had his statement recorded in Bukit Aman last night.
Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Ismail Omar promised yesterday to leave no stone unturned in the probe of the sex video and said that the police had formed a “special team” and will bring in and question anyone necessary.
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Video recorded at Jalan Ampang Hilir apartment
(Malay Mail) - Police have arrested two suspects in connection to the sex video allegedly featuring a man, said to resemble Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, having sex with a foreign woman.
Royal Malaysian Police (RMP) secretary Datuk Ghazali Md Amin, in a statement emailed earlier today, said one of the suspects disclosed the location where the recording of the video had taken place.
Ghazali added officers from the forensics team have been to the scene to look for evidence.
It was learnt the location of the recording was an apartment located at Jalan Ampang Hilir
While stating both suspects have been released on police bail and further investigations are ongoing, Ghazali did not detail the time the arrests were made, nor the identity of the suspects.
Sources, however, told The Malay Mail the two men were Abdul Rahim and Shazryl.
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