Saiful Bukhari Azlan
former aide of Anwar Ibrahim
Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan (born 6 July 1985) is a Malaysian businessman and politician. He joined the Malaysian United Indigenous Party (BERSATU) in 2021. In 2022, he quit BERSATU.
He was the personal assistant of former Malaysia Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim and also the accuser in Anwar's second sodomy trial. On 28 June 2008, he lodged a police report claiming that he had been forcibly sodomised by Anwar. When it was put to him that a 61-year-old man is unlikely to be able to physically overpower a 24-year-old man, he changed his complaint to "homosexual conduct by persuasion". Sodomy, even if consensual, is punishable by up to 20 years' imprisonment and whipping under Section 377B of the Malaysian Penal Code.
Early life and education
Saiful was born on 6 July 1985 in Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia to the couple of Azlan Mohd Lazim and Halina Mohd Alip.
From 2006 to 2007, Saiful attended the Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN) in Bangi, Selangor where he was a pro-student activist and a candidate for the university's student body president.
Saiful was an electrical engineering student but did not earn a degree due to his dismissal from the college in 2007. In the 2008 Malaysian general election, he supported the opposition political party, accusing the incumbent Prime Minister, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, of cronyism and corruption.
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