PETALING JAYA:
A woman has denied being a proxy for Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s former political secretary Shamsul Iskandar Akin, describing the allegation as “false and malicious”.
In a video clip, Sofia Rini Buyong said businessman Albert Tei’s claims amounted to slander.
“An individual named Albert claimed in a video that there were instructions from me or the prime minister for him to record videos about several politicians in Sabah,” she said in the video.
“I categorically state that I am not Shamsul Iskandar’s proxy.”
Tei, who is at the centre of the alleged mining scandal in Sabah, is currently standing trial on two counts of giving bribes.
In a video, he was seen speaking to a woman alleged to be Sofia, who claimed to be a proxy for Shamsul.
She…