Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Mohd Nazri Abdul Aziz appears to have risen to the defence of the mysterious ‘Datuk T’, who had screened a sex video that is claimed to involve Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim.

“There is a saying, 'don't kill the messenger',” he said in response to numerous questions on possible legal implications for those who organised the 'Blue Monday' screening yesterday.

'So don't raise issues that are not central to the issue at hand. The opposition always says it is the work of the BN... you have problems in your party, solve it,” he told reporters at his office in the Parliament building today.

"If you think BN is involved... we don’t want (this), and we can do without it. To say that BN will do this, is a reflection of what they (themselves) are capable of doing,"

Nazri urged ‘Datuk T’ to immediately lodge a police report instead of giving the politician implicated time to come clean.

Commenting on the screening of the sex video at a hotel yesterday, the de facto law minister insisted that it was not illegal for the people behind this to show the video to journalists and editors.

azlan“You tell me what is wrong. Everybody says it is against the law, but tell me, which law? Whoever knows should come forward to inform us,” he said.

He noted that, if the screening was done to make money, then it “probably is” an offence.

“But we all know that he (Datuk T) has all intentions to report (the matter) to the police and he got editors as his witnesses... but that’s not the point. The point is the ‘blue’ movie itself, and the actor (in the footage).”

Nazri also scoffed at Anwar’s denial yesterday at a late press conference yesterday, pointing out that no one had reported his apparent involvement up to then.

“Why (deny)? It was supposed to be a private screening. Who is it (in the video)? It could be (DAP advisor Lim) Kit Siang, it could be (PAS president Abdul) Hadi (Awang),” he said.

NONENazri joked that, if it were true that Anwar is the man in the footage, then this would amount to “a draw” between BN and Pakatan Rakyat.

“I think it’s a draw now. We have (MCA president Dr) Chua Soi Lek and they have Anwar, if it’s true that it is him... it’s a draw now, God is great,” he quipped, referring to the 2008 sex scandal involving Chua when he was health minister.

‘No MP watched the video’

Nazri also dismissed an online news report that a group of parliamentarians had watched the sex video on a laptop yesterday, in the smoking section of the MPs’ lounge in Parliament House.

The report further claimed that the laptop had been confiscated not long after word got round that the video was being circulated in Parliament.

Nazri admitted that a few people had been “looking for the video” online, but stressed that not one person has managed to get a hold of it up to now.

“I was there. I asked them ‘What the hell are you doing?’, and they told me they were looking for the video, but nobody managed to find it,” he added.

“Even up till 9.30pm, when I was walking around Parliament, nobody found it... I think this was misreported. It is not true because it did not happen."