Azmin calls out Anwar ‘treachery’ for leaked audio clip

Updated 3 years ago · Published on 11 Apr 2021 6:52PM · 4 Comments

Minister for International Trade and Industry Mohamed Azmin Ali says leaders of PKR and Umno, Anwar Ibrahim and Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, should come clean and admit their part in the audio clip scandal. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, April 11, 2021.

PKR president Anwar Ibrahim’s supposed conversation with his opposite number in Umno, Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, is “treachery” on the part of the opposition leader, according to Minister for International Trade and Industry Mohamed Azmin Ali, weighing into the leaked audio clip scandal.

“I believe this is the biggest treachery committed by Anwar towards his party and also Pakatan Harapan component parties because he had held these negotiations privately,” the Perikatan Nasional information chief said today, asserting his confidence the audio clip featuring his former leader is authentic.

Azmin’s statement comes barely a year after his instrumental part in the Sheraton Move, in which he led a group of PKR lawmakers to join with Muhyiddin Yassin’s Bersatu in dropping out of Pakatan Harapan, resulting in the collapse of the government.

Azmin later joined Bersatu and became a minister in Muhyiddin’s Perikatan Nasional cabinet.

“As a (former) officer who had served under Anwar for a long time and was his private secretary, I am confident that the audio is authentic, which can be proven through investigations,” he said at an event in his Gombak constituency today.

He urged authorities to immediately investigate the matter because will also ensure the individuals involved have to defend themselves.

Azmin said Anwar and Zahid should at least come clean to their own parties.

Zahid has dismissed the audio clip as fake, adding that it was a disgusting political gambit released by people wanting to “undermine and destroy Umno”.

In the conversation, voices – supposed to be those of Zahid and Anwar – were discussing the outcome of the recent Umno General Assembly, at which the party severed ties with Bersatu and Perikatan Nasional.

Anwar had also refuted any part in the clip, but caused more controversy by defending the content.

“What is wrong with the conversation, if it is true? Is there any criminal element or is it wrong?” Anwar said yesterday in an online forum organised by Majlis Professor Negara.

“There is nothing wrong with the audio,” he told Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia’s Prof Dr Mohamad Agus Yusof, who was interviewing him. – April 11, 2021.

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  • What fuck are you talking about Azmin, it's all in the political game chest of which you are also a player and let us remind you that you of all people back stab the people who voted for you. Your visits to BA is a waste of time as all the people in attendance are imported in and its disturbing the peace we enjoy our weekends. The word is you are looking for another safe seat as we the folks of BA are had enough of you. Once a frog alway a frog.

    Posted 3 years ago by Teruna Kelana · Reply

  • Joke of the day was azmin the pengkhianat talking about betrayal?

    Posted 3 years ago by Anak Malaysia · Reply

  • Azmin would have been wiser to keep his mouth shut considering that he was caught in a compromising position in a hotel room and for committing the greatest treachery by causing the collapsed of a legitimately elected government.

    Posted 3 years ago by Rupert Lum · Reply

  • A case of the pot calling the kettle black. What a hypocrite? This Azmin fella must be booted out come the next election.

    Posted 3 years ago by Edwin N · Reply