Azam Baki has resigned as chief of Malaysia's anti-corruption agency, leaving Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim to manage the aftermath. Baki's tenure was marked by controversy, raising questions about accountability.

On his last morning in charge of Malaysia’s anti-corruption watchdog, Azam Baki did what he had always done – talked tough and walked away on his own terms. But the man who spent the past six years making the country’s powerful sweat left behind a question he never satisfactorily answered: what do you do when the anti-corruption chief becomes the story? Analysts say Azam’s exit puts Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, who stood by him throughout, in a difficult position ahead of the next general...