"A campaign of misinformation and misperception is being spread suggesting that my husband is wealthy and therefore corrupt,” Tun Daim Zainuddin's wife Toh Puan Naimah Khalid told reporters before entering the MACC headquarters in Putrajaya on Wednesday (Jan 10).
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00:00 I will make a statement in English and my lawyer will give in Malay.
00:08 In our free and democratic country, it is not an offence to work hard, be successful in business and industry, and become wealthy as a result.
00:21 In fact, it is good for the nation as it builds the economy and provides jobs.
00:28 But my husband is persecuted for that success.
00:32 His success is now made an excuse to slander his reputation and paint him as a corrupt person.
00:40 It is public knowledge that Dayim was a very successful businessman prior to joining government in 1984.
00:48 He was already widely referred in the media at that time as a tycoon and a multi-millionaire before taking public office 40 years ago.
00:59 Now, a campaign of disinformation and misperception is being relentlessly spread, suggesting that because he is very wealthy, he is therefore corrupt.
01:13 There is no sense or logic in this, and no successful businessman in the country will be safe from such an insinuation.
01:24 And such accusations do not easily go away once out in the public domain.
01:30 More importantly, the office of the Prime Minister should never be used to besmirch the reputation of individuals by insinuations and thinly veiled accusations of wrongdoing, or be used to settle old political scores.
01:50 Yet this is exactly what the Prime Minister has been doing by suggesting on several recent occasions that my husband has illegal wealth but without providing an iota of evidence.
02:07 It is the Prime Minister suggesting that hardworking and capable Malay businessmen cannot become wealthy without resorting to improper or illegal means.
02:19 This would only serve to perpetuate false stereotypes about the capabilities of the Malays.
02:27 Today it's my family, tomorrow who knows who else would be victimised.
02:33 But be that as it may, we have extended our cooperation to the MACC as required by law, even though we question the motives of the investigation.
02:45 We know that we will be finally vindicated.
02:49 I thank you all for being here, and God bless Malaysia.
02:53 Thank you very much.
02:55 [Applause]
03:05 [Silence]
03:11 [BLANK_AUDIO]