The Malaysian Insight

A BARISAN Nasional lawmaker has defended Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief Dzulkifli Ahmad after a series of video clips alleging his involvement in an extramarital affair with a married woman went viral on social media. 

“I am of the opinion that the images cannot be trusted. In this age of technology, Dzulkifli’s face could be replaced with my face,” Langkawi MP Nawawi Ahmad said in the Dewan Rakyat today.

“We can do anything with technology. We used to hear about ‘it sounds like me, it looks like me, but it is not me’.”

He was responding to Puchong MP Gobind Singh’s debate last week, in which he urged Putrajaya to take disciplinary action against Dzulkifli following allegations that he had an affair with a married woman.

He said Gobind should not have brought up the issue in Parliament last week and there should not be further discussion on the matter. 

It was reported that a series of video clips had surfaced showing Dzulkifli with a woman holding hands and entering a restaurant in Bali.

The clips were uploaded anonymously on YouTube.

The woman in question has said her recent divorce had nothing to do with Dzulkifli.

Dzulkifli has denied the allegations and vowed not to bow down to the smear campaign against him. – November 7, 2017.