Police take Anwar’s statement over sex video

(Bernama) — Police have recorded statements from Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and 34 others to facilitate the probe into the sex video featuring a man resembling the opposition leader.

Besides Anwar, others who have been questioned include former Melaka chief minister Tan Sri Rahim Thamby Chik, businessman Datuk Shazryl Eskay Abdullah and Perkasa treasurer Datuk Shuib Lazim, or collectively known as “Datuk T”, who have admitted that they were behind the screening of the video to the media on March 21.

Deputy CID chief Datuk Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani said several staff of Carcosa Seri Negara where the video was shown had also been questioned.

He added that the statement taken from Anwar was sufficient.

“If there are parts of his statement which are incomplete, we will recall him,” he told reporters after handing over the skeleton remains of a policeman who was killed in an air crash in an operation against Communist insurgents in 1950, to his family members at Bukit Aman Mosque, here.

Acryl Sani said police would record the statements of two or three more individuals.

The investigation, he said, was now about 95 per cent complete and that a report would be handed over to the Attorney-General’s Chambers soon.

Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Ismail Omar confirmed recently that the video was genuine.

The investigation was launched following a report lodged by Anwar on March 22 denying that he was the man in the video.