Syed Saddiq ‘blackmailed with sensitive pix’
PETALING JAYA: While Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman has lodged a police report claiming to be blackmailed, an ex-party member has filed another report against him.
The Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (Pribumi) youth chief said he “couldn’t sleep” after being blackmailed with what he described as “sensitive photos”.
He claimed that he had received multiple “sensitive photos” that targeted him personally through an app at around 1am on Wednesday. He did not name the app.
“Previously, I was being blackmailed by a group targeting my father and brother. But now, it is me who is being blackmailed,” he said after lodging a report at the district police headquarters in Subang yesterday.
Describing the blackmail as “a lot more personal”, Syed Saddiq however said he did not receive any death threat or threat of assault.
“My family is worried. The information is used to threaten me – to get to me,” he said, adding that he believed both the blackmail and the RM5mil offer to quit Pribumi and leave Malaysia were by the same group.
On Monday, Syed Saddiq had claimed that he was offered RM5mil to leave the country, adding that he was also blackmailed over “a particularly sensitive issue” involving his parents, brother and himself.
He also hit back at critics who claimed that his Oxford University offer letter was fake and clarified that he had not accused former Pribumi members of accepting money to leave the party.
“I said they were offered money. I didn’t say they accepted it,” he added.
“I remember that she (Hamidah) mentioned it (being offered money) at a ceramah,” he said.
Former Pribumi vice-president Datuk Hamidah Osman had slammed Syed Saddiq for accusing her of accepting bribes to leave the party.
At the Dang Wangi police station, former Pribumi founding member Kamarulazman Habibur Rahman, who left the party in April, lodged a report against Syed Saddiq.
Claiming that Syed Saddiq had included his name in the list of people allegedly offered RM1mil to leave the party, Kamarulazman said he was giving him seven days to present proof or face legal action.