PARLIAMENT | When questioned about MACC chief commissioner Azam Baki's links to shares worth RM800,000, Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform) M Kulasegaran initially defended the former, only to backpedal later.

It began when the deputy minister was questioned by MPs regarding Bloomberg’s exposé on Azam, where Kulasegaran initially said there were no regulations barring a civil servant from holding shares at that threshold...