KUALA LUMPUR: Police investigations have revealed that the sex video allegedly implicating a minister was the work of a group masterminded by “a leader of a political party”.
Inspector-General of Police Datuk Seri Abdul Hamid Bador said the group’s intentions were to bring down the minister in question by attacking his reputation.
He said the group was hoping to cause anxiety among the people and had paid “hundreds of thousands of ringgit” to certain quarters to produce the video clips.
“Police have obtained the findings of an analysis on the video clips from CyberSecurity Malaysia. CyberSecurity has verified that the chances of the video clips being authentic were high.
“However, the results of the facial recognition (analysis) of the clips came back negative (meaning that) the identity of the (other) man in the video cannot be linked to the (minister),” he said in a statement.
When the video clips, featuring two men in various sexual acts, were first released, former Santubong PKR chief Haziq Aziz had admitted to being one of the men.
He had then claimed the other man in the video was Economic Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali.
Police have, to date, arrested nine individuals to facilitate investigations into the video.
Six, including Haziq, were arrested on Sunday. Two days ago, Perak PKR chief and Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s political secretary Farhash Wafa Salvador Rizal Mubarak was arrested along with two other individuals in Pasir Gudang, Johor.