Dr M: Sometimes I overlooked something


PUTRAJAYA: "If you want to say that I am a perfectionist, yes I admit, but I am also human, sometimes I overlooked (something)."

This was a statement given by Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad to the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) into the Bank Negara Malaysia's (BNM) foreign exchange (forex) losses in the 1990s.

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