Datuk Seri Shamsul Iskandar Mohd Akin speaks to the media at the Primary Industries and Commodities Ministry in Putrajaya June 13, 2019. — Picture by Shafwan Zaidon
PUTRAJAYA, June 13 — The aide to a deputy minister implicated in a sex video that purportedly featured a minister has been suspended with immediate effect.
Deputy Primary Industries and Commodities Minister Datuk Seri Shamsul Iskandar Mohd Akin said the aide, Muhammad Haziq Abdullah Abdul Aziz, was handed a show-cause letter today.
He added that Haziq, whose employment is on a contract basis, is required to respond within three days.
“The ministry will not hesitate to terminate his contract should he fail to explain within the given time,” Shamsul told a press conference here.
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