COMMENT | Police have recorded a statement from former MACC chief commissioner Azam Baki regarding two separate investigations.

The first probe involved a Bloomberg article allegedly containing defamatory claims about his shareholdings in Velocity Capital Partner Berhad.

The second concerned allegations by businessperson Albert Tei, who claims the former top graft-buster abused his power and threatened him. Tei lodged a police report at Presint 7 police station in Putrajaya on May 13, the day after Azam left office.

Tei reported receiving threats following his disclosures regarding a Sabah mining scandal that implicated former state assemblypersons and former prime ministerial aide Shamsul Iskandar Akin.

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