Politics

Transparency Maldives makes recommendations for asset disclosure

The anti-corruption NGO made recommendations as “prerequisites to establishing a robust asset declaration regime.”

15 Jan 2019, 9:00 AM
Anti-corruption NGO Transparency Maldives has called on the government to strengthen its asset declaration process after the unprecedented disclosure of the president and cabinet’s personal finances.
The financial statements of President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, Vice President Faisal Naseem and ministers were published close to midnight Thursday after the government promised the overdue asset declaration before the end of last week.
Disclosing the assets of all political appointees and their spouses within the first week after Solih took office was a missed target of an ambitious 100-day action plan.
In a statement Sunday, the local chapter of Transparency International welcomed the asset disclosure as “an important first step in addressing grand corruption within the state.”

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