Several NGOs have urged Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim to instruct MACC chief commissioner Azam Baki to go on garden leave after the latter was implicated by businessperson Albert Tei in a corruption scandal.

They also decried the high-handed measures used by MACC officers to arrest Tei yesterday, adding that it has damaged public trust in the agency, pointing out how the agency has taken softer measures to probe others implicated in the scandal.

“If Tei’s allegation is credible...