Malaysia’s King Sultan Ibrahim said on Thursday that he will select the next head of the country’s anti-graft body, with the agency’s current chief under growing pressure to resign over misconduct allegations.
Azam Baki, chief commissioner of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), has faced sustained calls to step down following media reports in February accusing him and other senior officials at the agency of misconduct and breaches of public service rules.
Azam and the MACC have described the allegations as “baseless”. The scandal has deepened rifts within Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s administration, with some key allies questioning the premier’s commitment to tackling graft.
The government has investigated some of the allegations against Azam but has so far declined to make the findings public, pending related probes by police and other authorities. Azam’s contract with the MACC is due to end in May, according to media reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Malaysia’s King Sultan Ibrahim said on Thursday that he will select the next head of the country’s anti-graft body, with the agency’s current chief under growing pressure to resign over misconduct allegations.Azam Baki, chief commissioner of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), has faced sustained calls to step down following media reports in February accusing him […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n