[UPDATED VERSION] Malaysiakini’s SMS alert 3:37pm
Sex scandal: Health Minister Chua Soi Lek announced that he is resigning from all party and government posts effective immediately.
The Star has a story here.
[UPDATED VERSION at 10:35am, 2 January 2008] The Star’s SMS alert at 10:30am
MCA Presidential council to meet today at 5pm to decide the fate of Health Minister Chua Soi Lek who is embroiled in sex scandal
[ORIGINAL VERSION at 4:37pm, 1 January 2008] Health Minister Chua Soi Lek admits he is the politician in the sex DVD circulating in Johor and that girl is his personal friend, hence confirmed earlier speculation of the "alleged national senior politician" caught in the video.
He apologised to the Malaysian public, supporters and his colleagues.
Thats about it? To say that a simple apologize is going to put an end to the case, it seems to oversimplify the circumstance. Be it internal or external pressures, his political career is as good as over.
So, barring any unforeseen intervention from the top, what’s his next step?
Is he going to resign? No! He said he will let Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to decide his fate.
Is the party MCA he is now representing will take punitive measure and removes him from the power seat to deter bad fanfare? Unlikely, MCA president Ong Ka Ting wants to be seen as a good guy and he is expected to get PM as the chairman of the ruling coalition to make a decision on behalf of him.
Is the act going to create negative repercussion on how MCA is really going to fare in this coming General Election, given the party’s already tarnished reputation among the Chinese community which is predicted to lose a few seats to the Opposition parties?
Either way, it’s a lose-lose situation to both MCA and Barisan Nasional. The damage is done and there is only a way out for Chua, which is to step down from both the party and the cabinet before more negative publicity made their way to the people, especially Chinese communities who is always extra-sensitive towards such a disgraceful behavior.
However, the focus is now on Pak Lah, let’s see how swift he is going to make the call, otherwise a protract decision on this matter or a no-go decision for Chua is not going to go down well with the rest of Barisan component parties, which I believe is going to allow Opposition camps to have an additional issue to harp on his poor judgement and leadership.
Chua: I’m the one in sex videoHealth Minister Chua Soi Lek today openly admitted that he was the person featured in a video depicting a man having sex with a woman purportedly in a hotel room.
Chua, 60, who is also MCA vice-president, made the confession at a press conference this afternoon in his parliamentary constituency in Labis, Johor.
However, he said that he will not resigned as minister but will instead let Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to decide on his fate.
The senior MCA leader, who is married with three children, also said that the 30-something woman featured in the video clip was a "personal friend".
“I am the man in the tape. The girl is a personal friend,” said Chua.
He emphasised that he did not make the tape himself.
“Who have done this is not important. What is most important is that my family, wife and children have accepted my apology,” he added.
Chua said he had met with Abdullah as well as Deputy Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak and MCA president Ong Ka Ting to “personally apologised to them”.
“I appeal to the press to give me and my family some space during this difficult time.”
Wife backs Chua
Over the past three days, the Chinese dailies have reported that free DVDs – allegedly showing the politician in various sexual antics with a woman – were first distributed in Muar and later, Batu Pahat and Seremban.
The scandal first broke on Saturday when copies of the DVD were anonymously placed in various streets in Muar town for people to collect. Some copies were even distributed by unknown individuals to a number of shops in the area.
Meanwhile, Chua’s wife Wong Sek Hin released a statement in support of his embattled husband in the wake of the sex video scandal.
She said that Chua had apologised to her and the family for his sexual indiscretion.
“It is a difficult time for all of us but we have accepted his regret and apology,” she added.
“He has been a good husband, father and family man who have never shirked his responsibilities.
“We know that it will be difficult during this time but we will go through this together as a family and will support him.”
Two video clips
According to those who have watched the tape, there were two separate DVDs depicting the alleged sex act purportedly recorded using closed circuit television (CCTV).
The first DVD lasting 56 minutes showed the entire sexual act from four different camera angles showing the bed, main door and living room.
Labelled as ‘(name of politician deleted) rapes and threatens woman’, a man can be seen walking into a room believed to be in a hotel and engages in sex with apparently a woman in her 30s.
Meanwhile, the second disc lasting 44 minutes was labelled ‘(name of politician deleted) sex video’ and featured the same sex act from a sole stationary camera that zoomed on the bed.
The couple can be seen in the video speaking in the Hokkien dialect.
The video clip begins with the alleged politician in the room taking a shower and changing clothes. A woman later knocks on the door and is seen entering the room. The couple appears to know each other.
The video then shows the woman taking out a laptop and placed it on the bed, and then going into the bathroom and emerging later naked.
The woman then performs oral sex on the alleged politician and this is followed by sexual intercourse on bed. The couple appears to be watching something on the laptop during their sexual act.
Long political career
Chua, a trained psychologist, began his medical career as a government doctor in 1974 before moving into private practice two years later.
Chua, who hailed from Johor, was first elected state assemblyman for Penggaram in his home state in 1986. He held the state seat for 18 years – winning it in four consecutive general elections.
He was a Johor executive councilor for 14 years from 1990 to 2004.
He moved to federal-level politics at the 2004 general elections when he was picked to run for Labis, a parliamentary constituency near Segamat which was vacated by outgoing MCA chief Dr Ling Liong Sik.
He was also picked by Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi as health minister, a much-coveted cabinet post, soon after the general elections.
From there, Chua moved up the party hierarchy at lighting speed – he bagged the second highest number of votes to become one of the party’s four vice-presidents in 2005.
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yeah, what kind of crap is that? "looks like me, sounds like me but it is not me" i think that must be his doppleganger !. i guess he is a lawyer enough to know of all the loopholes in the system after all , you are innocent until you are proven guilty. so keep on denying ………until the cows come home. it shows that in our country , anything is possible…that’s the spirit of malaysia boleh. Malaysia apa pun boleh. His dear friend, pula , kept on forgetting
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i think we , malaysians , are too free . Some of us, busybodies can go to great lengths taking photographs of people in their most vulnerable moments. These perverts should all be put behind bars for revelling in others’ miseries. . so , what good does it do for us to look at all the gambar bogel? Honestly, all of us need to spend more time in prayer. moral decadence is slowly creeping in
awesome !!
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The future is now. The dear lady was just resuscitating the lame piece by giving it CPR. Mouth to penis mouth blowing if you want to call that a job or work. Fortunately, it was successful test, believed tested several times in the past. Resuscitated well and sure worked like a mustang. Yeehaw!! Dr Chua was experimenting on that secretly but the test was recorded due to ulterior motives beyond our comprehension. He was the Health Ministry then so he was in the best position to do that test with no significant grant required from the government. You can say a covert operation if you like. The lady should be rewarded and so does Dr Chua Soi Lek. He is now a leg end or near to a legend. Mr Tee has no balls to upped Chua’s achievement so you can see Mr Tee is quite pissed and probably had to do a hand job himself. Can’t blame the wife when Mr Tee had a T face. Selfish of him not to share. Tusk tusk Mr Tee and now he is resurfacing Chua’s achievement again. Bravo.