PETALING JAYA, July 24 — A PKR member lodged a report today to urge his party’s disciplinary body to take action against Perak PKR chairman Farhash Wafa Salvador Rizal Mubarak for calling party deputy president Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali “semburit”.
Farhash made the remark outside the Dang Wangi police headquarters after being released yesterday from police remand. He was detained to help facilitate investigations into a series of sex videos implicating Azmin and another PKR member Haziq Abdullah Abdul Aziz, who admitted to being the other person in the clips.
“Semburit” is a Malay word referring to men involved in gay sex.
PKR Selangor’s former deputy information chief, K. Gunasekaran Kuppan after filing an official complaint at the party headquarters said he was told by the disciplinary board committee that the investigations into his complaint could take up to 90 days.
He urged for it to be expedited as there was a video evidence of the incident.
“As a party member, I have gone through the disciplinary body. Rightfully, he will be called, and if it’s true what he said, it does not need 90 days.
“That is not fair actually, because it is clear in all videos, in portals. That word ‘Azmin semburit” ‘. So it’s clear. This matter can even investigated within one day. Action must be taken, be it sacking, or suspension. Suspension for two years or four years. Up to the party,” Gunasekaran told reporters here.
Also present during the report handover was D. Nallan, the PKR Ampang deputy division chief, who called for Farhash’s immediate sacking.
“Sack him. Have to sack him because he said the deputy president is ‘semburit’. So as the grassroots members who voted for the deputy president, to make him deputy president, when such a word as ‘semburit’ is used on him, Farhash must be sacked,” he told reporters.
Gunasekaran handed over the complaint letter to PKR’s discipline body secretariat, Julailey Jemadi and witnessed by several PKR division leaders.
Malaysiakini’s sister company, Kinitv, yesterday posted a video in which Farhash, at the end of his speech cried: “Anwar for PM! Azmin semburit!”
Farhash, who was released from police custody yesterday after eight days in police remand, said if the police believed there was a political conspiracy behind the sex video, it was one against PKR President Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
He also accused the police of being unfair in arresting him, instead of calling him to provide his statement with regards to the case.
Farhash claimed that the police had initially wanted to remand him under Section 377B of the Penal Code, which deals with cases of voluntarily committing carnal intercourse against the order of nature, but later chose to remand him under a different penal code.
He was remanded under Section 292 of the same Code, pertaining to disseminating obscene material, as well as Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998, which deals with the improper use of network facilities or network service.
Former Santubong PKR Youth Chief Haziq was also released yesterday on police bail, after being detained for nine days.
Haziq’s legal representative, Ramesh Sivakumar said they are waiting for further developments in investigations.
