Ku Nan claims sold off stock portfolio to be debt-free minister

Former federal territories minister Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor told the court today that he had sold off most of his stock portfolio before he joined the government, in order to become a debt-free minister.

"I have sold (most of my shares) so that I had zero-debt, so I can concentrate on the job which I have been asked to do," he said during his trial at the Kuala Lumpur High Court for the charge of accepting RM2 million in bribes...