Malaysian Scandal Makes Front Pages
Without Help from the National Enquirer
Without Help from the National Enquirer
The Malaysian Health Minister who urged fellow countrymen to wear condoms fell victim to the discovery that he'd been the star of two sex videos--one almost an hour long.
One would think that the Health Minister meets at least one requirement for a promising porn career: stamina.
Health Minister Chua Soi Lek, a married man with three children, stepped down yesterday after the secretly filmed sex videos caught him committing adultery with a female "close" friend.
No word on whether the doctor was wearing a condom at the time.
Health Minister Chua Soi Lek was seen performing sexual acts with the woman in a hotel room. A one-hour DVD recording of the episode began circulating last week, and Chua acknowledged on Tuesday he was the man in the video.
Dr. Chua Soi Lek described the woman as a "personal friend" but refused to go into greater detail.
One would hope that the woman was a personal friend.
It probably made little difference to his wife and three children.
The 61-year-old former physician has been a fast-rising government official in recent years, but the scandal turned into a high-profile embarrassment for Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who brought Chua into the Cabinet in 2004.
Another "fast rising" career in politics derailed by sex and scandal involving videotape.
As of yet, there has been no word of who exactly taped the secret videos.
Was it the doctor?
Or was his "personal friend" the producer?
Malaysia's Religious Police didn't think it made much difference either way.
The New Strait Times, from Malaysia, reports.
Police will investigate the "hidden camera" aspect of the sex act involving Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek in a hotel room.
This follows some concerns that the secret recording of the intimate scenes captured on a widely-circulated DVD was an indication of an invasion of privacy and the possibility of more cases of sinister taping of other privileged information.
Deputy Inspector-General of Police Datuk Ismail Omar said investigations would cover all aspects of the case including how the recording equipment came to be in the room at a hotel in Batu Pahat.
At present, the matter is being investigated by police under Section 292 of the Penal Code for distribution of obscene material as the discs were reportedly dropped into the postboxes of selected houses and shops in Muar and Batu Pahat.
So someone other than the Health Minister may be in for some future trouble.
Unless he was the one who made the videos in the first place.
One can't imagine his doing that.
But one couldn't imagine the good doctor performing in the tapes, either.
In his role as Health minister, Lek advocated the use of condoms to help stop the spread of HIV, in the face of "religious opposition."
The "religious opposition" are the Malaysian Religious Police. Charged with enforcing "morality", the Religious Police are known for raiding discos and other places such as parks, to catch lovers in khalwat, or "close proximity". Khalwat is considered adultery and a crime, un-chaperoned meetings between men and women who are not married to one another.
Perhaps if the doctor had taken better care of his "personal friend", the tapes would still be a secret.
The scandal made front page news in the South Asian country.
And Malaysia doesn't even have the National Enquirer around.
by Mondoreb
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Source:
* Malaysia's Health Minister Resigns
* Malysian Health Minister "Unwittingly" Stars in Sex Videos
* Police to Probe Secret Recording
For a complete run-down on the Malaysian Health Minister story, check out "Malaysia Health Minister Caught on Sex Video" at Jammie Wearing Fool. It's got a video, too. |
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