Former Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin says that while corruption does exist in the government, to pull it off on a large scale would require a “conspiracy of the highest order”.
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00:00 It's very difficult for a minister to orchestrate massive corruption.
00:12 There are enough internal checks in place which minimize it.
00:19 I'm not saying which eliminates it, but which minimize this.
00:24 I ran perhaps one of the biggest procurement programs during COVID, which has been investigated
00:31 by almost everybody.
00:33 PAC, White Paper, PRM, Audit Department, and until today nothing, because I followed the
00:41 internal processes.
00:43 I don't think there would have been an opportunity for me to have gone around those internal
00:48 processes.
00:49 I followed it and I was intent on following it because that's what you do as a minister.
00:55 You hold true to your oath of office.
00:59 But secondly, it goes through the Secretary General, it goes through committee, finance
01:08 committee, it goes through the Attorney General's chambers.
01:12 It would have to be a conspiracy of the highest order to pull something off.
01:18 And don't get me wrong, it exists.
01:19 Of course it exists.
01:21 And we should stamp it out.
01:22 But I'm just saying that the internal processes are quite tight.
01:28 For you to pull something off like 1MDB, it has to be extremely audacious and it has to
01:34 be right at the top.
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