Anwar denies it is him in the recording

The voice in this audio clip resembles that of Anwar Ibrahim

(FMT) – Anwar Ibrahim is no stranger to being linked to recordings. And the latest audio clip is just the latest addition to his exciting political career.

In it, a voice resembling him condemns his long-time protege Mohamed Azmin Ali, as well as Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

Like a cat with nine lives, the former deputy prime minister has survived numerous attacks, including the kind which politicians have feared most since the invention of the tape recorder.

Now, with him as the prime minister-in-waiting under a deal cut while he was in prison, this clip threatens to slow down what could be the final sprint in his long journey to the Prime Minister’s Office, a journey he had begun in 1998, only to be disrupted by his dramatic sacking.

Pakatan Harapan leaders have dismissed the clip as fake.

Whether fake or not, its timing seems to have been planned with precision. PKR will soon go to its first party polls after its general election victory, in which Anwar has no choice but to ensure he gets a resounding endorsement as the party president.

The clip surfaces at a time Azmin has been increasingly seen as Mahathir’s blue-eyed boy. In the last four years, things have gone quite well for the PKR deputy president. After his accidental appointment as the Selangor menteri besar, he has now ascended to the powerful portfolio of economic affairs. More recently, he was appointed to the board of one of the government’s most prized cash cows, Khazanah Nasional.

The last time a recording shook Malaysian politics was in 2007, when a grainy eight-minute footage showed lawyer VK Lingam purportedly in a telephone conversation with then Chief Justice Ahmad Fairuz Sheikh Abdul Halim, fixing the appointment of senior judges.

That video clip was officially revealed by none other than Anwar, and led to a royal commission of inquiry, where among its witnesses was a digital forensic analyst who said it was authentic, confirming public sentiments.

But in his testimony, Lingam questioned the authenticity of the footage, although he agreed that the man in the clip “looks like me and sounds like me”.

This time, we let you be the judge. It sounds like Anwar. But is it really Anwar?

Anwar Ibrahim also denied the video below but now it has been confirmed it is him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y149_eh006Q