(Bloomberg) -- David Solomon had a message for Goldman Sachs Group Inc. employees shaken by the firm’s involvement in a multibillion fraud scandal: This isn’t us.

“I am personally outraged that any employee of the firm would undertake the actions spelled out in the government’s pleadings,” the firm’s chief executive officer said in a voicemail left with employees on Wednesday. “The behavior of those individuals is reprehensible and inconsistent with the good work and integrity that defines work that 40,000 of you do every day.”

The bank’s stock has suffered since prosecutors implicated a trio of Goldman Sachs bankers in a multibillion-dollar Malaysian fraud early this month. On Monday -- when the country’s finance minister said he would seek a full refund of all the fees it paid for 1MDB deals -- Goldman’s shares tumbled the most in seven years.

Analysts and investors have been trying to estimate what the financial fallout of the scandal will be for the firm, after it said in a filing this month that it could face significant fines. Solomon said in his voicemail that "any speculation in the press or elsewhere” on outcomes for the firm “is completely unfounded.”

Goldman Sachs is trying to counter arguments that fault lies beyond a few employees. Tim Leissner, the bank’s former chairman of Southeast Asia, admitted in a plea that he bribed officials to get the bond deals and said a culture of secrecy at the investment bank led him to conceal wrongdoing from the company’s compliance staff.

A spokesman for Goldman Sachs confirmed the authenticity of the voicemail and declined to comment further.

“A group of people, including some of us in the executive office, are intensely focused on this matter,” Solomon said. “For the rest of us, our job is to focus on our clients, our business and the many opportunities ahead.”

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To contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub

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