
KUALA LUMPUR, March 22 — A man claiming to be the mysterious “Datuk T” behind the screening of a sex video allegedly featuring Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim emerged again today, and said he would not surrender his recording to the opposition leader, his wife or any authority.
Instead, he pledged to give a copy of the 21-minute long video and the Omega watch supposedly belonging to Anwar to an independent commission, which he urged all media and non-governmental organisations to jointly form to investigate the authenticity of the clip.
In an emailed press statement purportedly penned by him this evening, Datuk T explained that his change of heart was due to Anwar’s denial of his involvement in the video and his police report lodged today.
“Now that
Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has lodged a police report denying that he is the man in a sex video screened to media personnel on Monday, I presume that he and his wife are not interested to receive a copy of the recording from me next Monday.
“Therefore I am calling on the media fraternity and NGOs to immediately form an independent public commission to investigate the authenticity of the tape,” he wrote.
The commission, he said, would also be allowed to engage foreign experts from any country to verify the recording.
I will hand over the original recording to the public commission. I will also hand over the Omega watch that was found in the room where Anwar was caught on video with a foreign prostitute.
“The commission can send the watch to forensic experts to find if DNA found on the watch matched Anwar’s,” he said.
During yesterday’s screening to selected media personnel at a prominent hotel here, the unidentified man had promised to surrender a copy of the video to Anwar and his wife Datin Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail next Monday.
This, he had said, was to enable the duo to identify the man in the video and subsequently to announce their resignations.
Despite deciding not to surrender the video to Anwar and Wan Azizah, Datuk T pledged to stick to his promise that the recordings will be kept away from the hands of the authorities.