Kapar MP S. Manikavasagam today demanded police explain his receiving a compact disc (CD) containing the full version of the sex video allegedly featuring Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim at his parliamentary office yesterday.
Manikavasagam asked how the CD could have been be distributed when the original copy of the sex video had been handed over to the police.
He also said after watching the CD multiple times that the person in the clip was not Anwar.
“I have seen the VCD about three times and I also watched again this morning but it is confirmed that the actor is not Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. The actor’s physical attributes and his hair is all different.
“This is the full CD so I would like the police to investigate and I also mentioned in the police report that ‘Datuk T’ had given the original CD to the police... how is the CD being distributed [now?]” he told reporters after lodging a report at Dang Wangi police station here.
He said the CD proved that the police were unreliable, before asking for an independent body to investigate the case.
“I have no confidence in the police because if the original CD was given [to them,] then how could it [be] available for distribution? I have asked for an independent body to be formed for investigation,” he said together with PKR vice president and lawyer N. Surendran.
However, Manikavasagam denied that he had seen the original sex video when asked how he knew the CD given to him was a legitimate copy.
“I have never seen the video but it always comes out on TV3 and it is the same,” he said.
Surendran added that the envelope containing the CD bore a postmark indicating it had been mailed from Thailand.
“[I]t is clear that the people behind this are trying to cover their tracks. They are very afraid that we will find out who is behind it because if you follow all the links, you will see that it will lead back to Umno and BN,” said Surendran.
The sex video was first screened to senior editors and reporters at the prestigious Carcosa Seri Negara on March 21 by a man who identified himself as “Datuk T”.
Shortly after the screening, it was revealed that “Datuk T” was a collective moniker for businessman Datuk Shazryl Eskay, former Malacca chief minister Tan Sri Rahim Thamby Chik and then-Perkasa treasurer-general Datuk Shuib Lazim.
Yesterday, Shazryl performed the “sumpah laknat” oath yesterday by swearing in God’s name that opposition leader is the man featured in a sex video.
The unedited sex video was also uploaded last Thursday to video sharing website YouTube.
During a March 24 press conference, three days after revealing the video, Rahim said it was exposed to show “a man who wants to be prime minister is not qualified.”
On April 18, Shazryl said he would take sole responsibility for the sex video screening when responding to a statement made by Federal CID deputy chief Datuk Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani that police had concluded their investigation into the sex video. The police are investigating the trio under section 292 of the Penal Code for screening pornographic material.
Deputy Inspector-General of Police Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar said on Tuesday the probe was still ongoing but was confident the police would resubmit investigation papers to the Attorney-General by this week.
The A-G had earlier returned the papers to the police.
Anwar has accused Datuk Seri Najib Razak of using the ongoing sex video saga as his main weapon to keep BN in government.
