The Edge publication’s former editor-in-chief Ahmad Azam Mohd Aris has been charged under the Penal Code at two separate Magistrate’s Court in Petaling Jaya today over two news reports published on the penny stock surge in 2020.

Azam (above) was charged with two counts under Section 500 of the Penal Code for criminal defamation, and a current editor M Shanmugam was named in one.

Section 500 carries imprisonment for up...