Centre to Combat Corruption and Cronyism (C4) chairperson Edmund Terence Gomez took Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim to task for an apparent lack of commitment to protecting whistleblowers.

Gomez said this follows the reappointment of Azam Baki as MACC chief, despite the top graft buster being at the centre of a controversy exposed by whistleblower K Lalitha.

Azam was allegedly involved in a share ownership scandal, which raised conflict of interest concerns and whether the shares befit his income as a public servant...