Yameen accused of ‘sullying GMR’s reputation’
Yameen had claimed that GMR only paid MVR16 million to the government a year whilst MACL generated MVR1 billion in the first year after taking over management of the Ibrahim Nasir International Airport in December 2012.
24 May 2016, 9:00 AM
GMR has hit back at President Abdulla Yameen’s characterisation of the decision to lease the Maldives main airport to the Indian infrastructure giant as an “economic crime.”
Yameen had claimed that GMR only paid MVR16 million (US$1 million) to the government a year whilst the state-owned airports company had generated MVR1 billion (US$65 million) in the first year after nationalising the Ibrahim Nasir International Airport in December 2012.
In a letter to the Maldives Airports Company’s managing director – obtained by The Maldives Independent – Andrew Harrison, former CEO of GMR Malé International Airport Pvt Ltd, said the president’s remarks were “absolutely baseless and far from the truth and aimed mainly at sullying GMR’s reputation.”
During the period in which GMR operated the Malé airport, GMR was the highest revenue generator for the government, the letter read.
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