IGP: We will probe Anwar over false report on sex tape issue

(The Star) – PKR leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim will be investigated for lodging a false police report in connection with the sex tape featuring a man resembling him.

Inspector General of Police Tan Sri Ismail Omar yesterday said an investigation paper would be opened soon following a police report lodged by Puteri Umno recently, after police investigations revealed that the sex video which allegedly implicated the Opposition leader was 99.9% authentic.

Police had sent the video to an independent company in South Korea and the United States of America to verify its authenticity.

In the report, Puteri Umno stated that since the video had been authenticated, it meant that Anwar had lied when he lodged a police report stating that it was not him in the sex video.

“We will open an investigation paper on Anwar soon on the matter,” he said yesterday.

Anwar had lodged a police report on April 28 over the emergence of a video clip showing a man who resembled him, having sex with a woman.

The video clip was shown to a group of media representatives at Carcosa Seri Negara on March 21.

In an unrelated matter, Ismail dismissed an accusation made by PAS deputy president Mohamed Sabu‘s son that the police may have masterminded the arson attempt on their double-storey link house in Section 19, Shah Alam on Tuesday at about 12.40am.

“The police have been accused of all kinds of things and this is just another one,” he said dismissively.