KUALA LUMPUR: Leaked sex videos showing a potential successor to Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad with another man have deepened rifts within the ruling coalition. It has raised concerns of a turbulent transition from the 93-year-old leader.
The sex tapes allegedly showing Economic Affairs Minister Mohamed Azmin Ali, were widely distributed to journalists and politicians via WhatsApp last week. Sodomy is a crime in Malaysia. Anwar Ibrahim, who Mahathir has named as his successor, has already spent about a decade in jail under the law on charge of sodomy. Azmin, who is said to be close to Mahathir, denied he was in the videos, saying they were a “nefarious plot” to end his political career. In a video posted on his Facebook page last week, Muhammad Haziq Abdul Aziz, an aide at the time to a deputy minister in Azmin’s party, claimed that he was one of the men in the video and the other was Azmin. Haziq was arrested last week and later released on police bail. He has been sacked from his post. (Agencies)
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