If a person O Yudhishthira, who is paid or not, comes to you for informing you of the damage done to your treasury when its contents are being embezzled by a minister, you should grant him an audience in private and protect him also from the minister. The minister guilty of embezzlement seek, O Bharata, to kill such informants.
ह्रियमाणममात्येन भृत्यो वा यदि वा भृतः। यो राजकोशं नश्यन्तमाचक्षीत युधिष्ठिर॥ श्रोतव्यमस्य च रहो रक्ष्यश्चामात्यतो भवेत्। अमात्या ह्यपहर्तारो भूयिष्ठं मन्ति भारत॥