Azlan Mohd Lazim

Azlan Mohd Lazim is the father of Saiful Bukhari Azlan, primarily known for his involvement in the Anwar Ibrahim sodomy trials. In June 2008, Saiful alleged that Leader of Opposition of Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim, to whom Saiful was a former aide, had forcibly sodomised him, eventually attesting to this in an oath that took place in the Federal Territory Mosque in August 2008 with Azlan as his witness. However, in March 2013, Azlan publicly retracted all allegations against Anwar, stating that the then Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's Department had used him and Saiful to implicate Anwar. In May 2013, he again changed his statement and retracted his March 2013 statement saying that what happened to Saiful was 'real' and not a political conspiracy against Anwar.