KUALA LUMPUR, July 16 — Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali had today called out Datuk Shamsul Iskandar Mohd Akin for urging leaders who are implicated in scandals to go on leave.
In a brief response, the PKR deputy president had told his information chief to not be a hypocrite.
“Don’t be a hypocrite,” Azmin told reporters when asked to respond on the matter here today.
Earlier, Shamsul had issued a statement urging political leaders who were implicated in wrongdoings to be placed on leave from their duties.
Without naming the person, Shamsul said the action is crucial as it would help enforcement agencies to carry out their investigations.
In the spirit of Malaysia Baharu, Shamsul said all parties including political leaders and civil servants should be responsible in helping to restore public confidence in the country’s enforcement agencies, particularly the police, the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) and the Attorney General’s Chambers.
Shamsul, who is also PKR vice-president, was referring to the ongoing investigations into Azmin after a series of sex clips purportedly involving him went viral early last month.
The police arrested six men on Sunday in connection to the case, including former Santubong PKR youth chief Muhammad Haziq Abdul Aziz, who was also the former senior private secretary to the deputy primary industries minister.
