MACC chief commissioner Azam Baki has again come under scrutiny after news reports revealed that he had at some point held considerable shares in two public-listed companies.

While Azam insisted that he did nothing wrong, saying he had disclosed the shareholdings with the Public Service Department, a politician has raised questions on how the career civil servant could afford the shares, estimated to be worth hundreds of thousands of ringgit.

According to his interview with a news portal recently, the anti-graft agency's top executive claimed that, having served the...