Yameen orders audit of tourism firm over corruption
President Abdulla Yameen has ordered an audit into the state-owned Maldives Marketing and Public Relations Corporation (MMPRC), a company at the center of a corruption scandal as well as the explosion on the presidential speedboat on September 28.
27 Oct 2015, 9:00 AM
President Abdulla Yameen has ordered an audit into the state-owned Maldives Marketing and Public Relations Corporation (MMPRC), a company at the center of a corruption scandal as well as the explosion on the presidential speedboat on September 28.
Ibrahim Muaz Ali, the president’s spokesman, in a tweet said Yameen wants the audit to begin from November 17, 2013, the day after Yameen assumed the presidency.
The MMPRC is tasked with promoting Maldives as a tourist destination.
Following Vice President Ahmed Adeeb’s arrest on suspicion of plotting the boat blast, Yameen in a public address, suggested his deputy had siphoned funds from MMPRC, obtained from leasing islands for resort development. to make unbudgeted expenses on the police force.
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