When confronted with a simple question, the artful dodging in providing answers has found many defenders. It deserves to be a case study in political gymnastics.
For a government that promised to fight corruption and uphold the rule of law, it was pathetic watching its leaders bend backwards to “protect” the beleaguered MACC chief.
A Bloomberg report highlighted that as of January, Azam Baki owned 17.7 million shares in financial services company Velocity Capital Partner Berhad - which is about a 1.7 percent stake. He has since clarified that he sold them in July.
First came Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform) M Kulasegaran, who erroneously claimed there were no...