Treasury secretary-general Irwan Serigar Abdullah has denied that the country's fiscal deficit had widened between January to May this year.

"Don't play with the issue that the fiscal deficit (had) widened and so on. (This) is all baseless argumentation.

"We look at the whole year. Wait for December, the figures will show you," he told reporters on the sidelines of the Finance Ministry's Hari Raya celebrations today...