Top opposition politician caught on sex video?

Hazlan Zakaria

A top opposition politician has apparently been caught on video having sex with an unknown woman.

And an unidentified group is demanding that the politician and his wife should quit politics if they do not want the clip to be distributed to the public.

"We don't want to humiliate him, we just want to show the truth," a representative of the group who wanted only to be known as 'Datuk T', said this morning.

A statement signed by 'The Insider' named the person in the video, and said a copy of the footage would be sent to him and his wife in seven days to 'identify the person' in it.

The 22-minute footage was allegedly recorded in the spa of a hotel in Kuala Lumpur on Feb 21, via four hidden cameras placed at different angles. The video was shown to the media this morning.

The time stamp started at 10.23pm and ended at 10.45pm that day. The images were in monochrome as the footage was claimed to have been recorded in low light.

The footage was shown on four split screens at once. One segment was clearer then the other three, which were grainy.

The footage shows a man coming into a sparsely furnished room that has a bed, a dresser and an air-conditioning unit on the wall.

The man enters the room through a door from an adjoining room, accompanied by a man whose face is not visible - and who then leaves the room. An Asian woman was shown waiting in the room.

'Datuk T' forwarded the tape to bypass footage of the couple undressing and the woman taking a bath.

The footage then moved to the man having sex with the woman, who 'Datuk T' claimed to be a foreign sex worker.

'Datuk T' showed footage of woman purportedly rifling through the clothing of the man while he was taking a shower.

The footage from one camera showed the man getting dressed - there was a clearer view of his face and body.

'Datuk T', claiming that the woman had stolen a watch from the man, showed reporters an Omega watch. He said he had acquired it.

'Datuk T' claimed to have found the sex video when the politician told him to search for the watch in the hotel room.

The video recorder was said to have been placed in a locked drawer, which he had pried open after detecting wires behind the dresser. He then removed the recorder from the premises.

Tight security

This morning, the media were called to the luxury Carcosa Seri Negara hotel in Kuala Lumpur, chosen for “security reasons”, according to 'Datuk T'.

In phone calls made this morning to reporters, a woman only said that they were to be given access to some “explosive” and “shocking” material.

The 'unveiling' of the video clip was managed with great secrecy - several individuals connected with the 'showing' were formally dressed, some wearing caps low over their forehead and wearing dark glasses. They conducted security checks on the 'invitees'.

Journalists and senior editors were taken in to a room to watch the clip in batches.

They were told to surrender all electronic gadgets such as handphones and cameras as well as their pens and notebooks.

They were made to wear an ankle-length brown robe over their clothes before they were allowed into the screening room.

Senior journalists and editors from Utusan Malaysia, New Straits Times and Berita Harian, who made up the first batch, declined to reveal anything when approached.

"We don't want to spoil it for you," said one journalist, looking serious.

The second batch of press was made up of The Malaysian Insider, Free Malaysia Today, Harakah and a senior editor from state-run news agency Bernama. Malaysiakini was slotted in last.

'Datuk T' and two other middle-aged men conducted journalists into a guest room where a computer was set up with a thumbdrive sticking out of a USB port. They were accompanied by two younger men who acted like bodyguards.

After the viewing session, 'Datuk T' named the individual and told Malaysiakini: “... I shall surrender the original footage to you guys to decide if it is indeed he in the video.”