In succinct orders posted on his personal Twitter account, the Inspector-General of Police told the Police Cyber Investigation Response Centre (PCIRC) to add the Pandan MP to the list of people they will investigate for sedition. — Picture by Choo Choy May

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 10 — Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar is keeping the police cybercrime unit busy today, directing them to investigate PKR secretary-general Rafizi Ramli over a Twitter post after ordering similar probes on a DAP lawmaker and a cartoonist.

In succinct orders posted on his personal Twitter account, the Inspector-General of Police told the Police Cyber Investigation Response Centre (PCIRC) to add the Pandan MP to the list of people they will investigate for sedition.

“PCIRC @PDRMsia siasat juga tweet ini yg cuba menghasut Rakyat mempercayai Hakim di bayar,” he tweeted.

[In English: PCIRC @PDRMsia investigate also this tweet that is attempting to incite the public to believe judges were paid.]

Attached to his tweet is a picture posted by Rafizi that contained a silhouette of what appears to be a person wearing a ceremonial wig similar to the style worn by judges, with dollar signs in each ringlet.

The picture was accompanied with the #RakyatHakimNegara (The people are the country’s judges) hashtag used in the run-up to Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s sodomy case decision today.

Earlier, the PCIRC were ordered to investigate DAP MP Nga Kor Ming and cartoonist Zunar over tweets on Anwar’s conviction by the Federal Court.

The Federal Court upheld today the Court of Appeal’s 2014 ruling that had reversed Anwar’s acquittal of sodomising former aide Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan, also sentencing him to five years’ jail.

Anwar will now lose his Permatang Pauh parliamentary seat as the law bars anyone fined over RM2,000 or imprisoned more than one year from serving as a lawmaker.

The decision also leaves the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) federal opposition pact without a leader.