IT GOES without saying in Malaysia that the sex clip featuring someone who resembles Economic Affairs Minister Mohamed Azmin Ali is just gutter politics.

The police have said it is a political conspiracy to bring down the minister, who is also PKR deputy president. Now the police say facial analysis is inconclusive.

There’s a break in logic here.

If it was a political conspiracy, wouldn’t those in it ensure that it does look like him and sound like him? Surely the VK Lingam video excuse, which ironically got the cameraman a seat in the Dewan Rakyat, is relevant here.

Consider also that political conspiracy isn’t a crime but unnatural sex is, as much as it is to distribute pornography.

That brings to focus the need to further remand Haziq Abdullah Abdul Aziz who confessed to being one of the men in the sex clip. He has fingered Azmin as his partner in the video, which Azmin has vehemently denied.

Or to continue remanding PKR president Anwar Ibrahim’s political secretary Farhash Wafa Salvador Rizal Mubarak too.

Both are now remanded under two sets of laws for distributing pornography and abusing networks. Is that all there is now to this scandal?

Inspector-General of Police Abdul Hamid Bador has been candid that this sex clip investigation has taken much time that could have been used elsewhere, given that it is political in nature.

That might be so but one man has confessed to sex acts illegal in Malaysia, yet he is now being investigated for distributing porn. Really? Is this where it ends?

The reality is the only offence here under local laws is unnatural sex acts, unless Malaysian politicians and police say it is no longer an offence worth investigating or prosecuting.

The Pakatan Harapan coalition came to power saying that rule of law and natural justice must be foundation of a new government.

Yet, they are arresting those suspected of being behind the video tape and its distribution but remain reluctant to tackle the “elephant in the room”.

Anwar was jailed in 1999 and 2012 for sodomy with the second case based on testimony from one complainant. There was no video.

Now one man has said virtually the same but it is apparently dismissed on the basis of inconclusive facial analysis.

It doesn’t do anyone justice, be it Anwar or even Azmin. The police need to be certain that this is being investigated fully, even if it’s seen as a waste of time.

Any inconclusive investigation will be seen as political, and that won’t be any good for this 14-month-old Mahathir government. – July 21, 2019.