Former prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s corruption trial began today with the defence questioning the prosecution’s first witness, MACC assistant enforcement officer Syawaludin Said, over the submission of edited TikTok videos as evidence.

During cross-examination, Muhyiddin’s counsel, Amer Hamzah Arshad, grilled the witness on whether he was aware of MACC chief commissioner Azam Baki stating last year that edited videos cannot be used as evidence.

The defence referred to a Malaysiakini article in which Azam...