IPOH: Both Umno president Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and PKR president Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim have not lodged any police reports over the audio recording that is purportedly of a conversation between them.
Home Minister Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin said as of Thursday (April 9), the police have received several reports but these were not from both leaders’ aides and were from other individuals.
“If they did not do anything wrong, why be afraid? Just lodge a report. However, I also want to let the people know that it is an offence to lodge false reports, ” he said after a Malaysia Prihatin roadshow in Tambun here on Thursday (April 9).
Prior to this, Hamzah had said that investigations would only be conducted if police reports have been lodged and that it is not wrong for Anwar to be Zahid’s teacher.
Hamzah had also added that there is nothing wrong with the conversation.
“If he (Zahid) wants to work with Anwar for either one to be prime minister, there’s nothing wrong with it. They are just afraid that people would see them as conspiring, but that’s another story, ” he had said.
On Wednesday (April 7), an audio clip of a conversation between two voices sounding like Ahmad Zahid and Anwar went viral, discussing the former's performance at the recent Umno annual general meeting (AGM).
The conversation between the two also said there was a need to hold an extraordinary Umno supreme council meeting to give the president the mandate to make the decision to leave the Perikatan government.
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