A member of the Iranian Parliament’s special investigate committee has warned against public disclosure of the ongoing investigation into corruption under former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s administration, saying that making the details of the violations public could harm the country and public trust, which he described as “under restoration.”

The “corruption is so big that we are scared it could cause social shock,” committee member Gholamali Jafarzadeh told Payam-e No May 3. “The dimensions of corruption in the cases at the investigation committee are so high that we are scared that if they become public it would cause trauma to the system,” he continued. The popular website Tabnak picked up the interview May 27, and the story went viral on Twitter and Facebook.

One of the more distressing sources of corruption, according to Jaffarzadeh, involved the Foundation for Martyrs. He asked, “How could some within the administration take advantage, with complete awareness, of the families of martyrs and veterans? Now when the wages of a class who, in the words of Imam [former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini], are the most supreme in society, are robbed, see for yourself what was going on in other fields.”

“Regrettably, it became clear that [in] the administration that claimed to be ‘pure,’ there was very big fraud,” Jafarzadeh said. In December 2012, Ahmadinejad called his administration the “most pure administration in the history of this country.”