A group of diehard Reformasi supporters has expressed dissatisfaction with the ongoing probe into a gay-sex video targeted at Economic Affairs Minister Mohamed Azmin Ali.
Otai Reformasi wants police to finalise their investigation as the controversy has been going on for far too long with no end in sight.
“Experts have carried out facial recognition and, despite that, they have been unable to identify the two men.
“Haziq was remanded for police investigations, but his intimate partner was left free,” the group’s deputy chairman Mustapa Mansur said at a press conference today.
Mustapa said this move (not to arrest Haziq’s partner) has raised questions as the offence was carnal intercourse against the order of nature, under the Penal Code
Last month, former PKR Santubong Youth chief Haziq Aziz shocked the nation when he admitted that he was one of two men filmed engaging in homosexual acts at a hotel in Sandakan in May.
The former private secretary to Deputy Primary Industries Minister Shamsul Iskandar Mohd Akin also claimed Azmin was the other person in the video, a charge the PKR deputy president has strongly denied.
“Otai is puzzled and dissatisfied that the other individual was not arrested,” Mustapa said.
He added that the delay in completing the probe will have a negative impact on the integrity of the police.
Meanwhile, the group’s secretary, Abdul Razak Ismail, said police should not focus their probe on the spreading of the video clips, but the crime itself – the homosexual act.
“We are not questioning the probe, but asking them not to focus on only one aspect of the case.”
Razak also challenged Selangor Menteri Besar Amirudin Shari to prove that PKR president Anwar Ibrahim was the mastermind behind the spread of the video.
Otai Reformasi, which comprises PKR supporters who took to the streets in the aftermath of Anwar’s dramatic sacking from the government in 1998, had previously called for Azmin to go on leave pending investigations.