PUTRAJAYA — Police must be given the freedom to take action against the two men in a viral sex video that has implicated Malaysian economic affairs minister Mohamed Azmin Ali, said a pressure group called Secretariat Suara Rakyat on Friday (Aug 30).

The group, which is headed by United Malays National Organisation (Umno) member Lokman Adam, said this is because a forensic report by a UK firm engaged to determine the video’s authenticity has found the clip to be genuine.

The group’s deputy chairman Mohamad Ali Mohamad, who led a group to submit a memorandum to the prime minister, said Inspector-General of Police Abdul Hamid Bador should be professional in investigating the clip.

“What is strange is that how one of the individuals in the video have admitted to his actions but no action is taken against him.

“His confession should have made the police’s work easier, but there is still no action by the police,” Mr Ali told the media outside the Prime Minister’s Office in Putrajaya on Friday.

He urged Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad to suspend Mr Azmin as a minister pending police investigations.

Mr Ali today submitted a copy of the 55-page report by Verden Forensics to a representative of the Prime Minister’ Office.

He said that the group would submit a copy of the report to the police and deputy prime minister in seven days.

Mr Lokman had said the report found that the two men in the clip “matched” the photos of Mr Azmin and former Santubong Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) Youth chief Haziq Abdullah Abdul Aziz.

The sex video first emerged on June 11. A day later, Haziq admitted to being one of the men in the clip and named Mr Azmin as the other.

Mr Azmin, who is PKR deputy president, had denied this, saying it was a plot to destroy his political career.

Haziq and others, including PKR president Anwar Ibrahim’s aide Farhash Wafa Salvador Rizal Mubarak, have been questioned over the clip.

Mr Hamid had said Malaysian experts found the video’s authenticity is “highly probable” but could not accurately verify the identity of the men.

Police had asked Mr Lokman to submit the UK firm’s report. THE MALAYSIAN INSIGHT