Ex-minister repays MVR300k phone bills
More than US$20,000 was spent on Aslam’s mobile phone bills between June 2009 and August 2011.
14 Jul 2018, 9:00 AM
Mohamed Aslam, a former housing and environment minister, has repaid MVR312,928 (US$20,254) spent from the ministry’s budget on his mobile phone expenses between June 2009 and August 2011.
Aslam reimbursed the state Thursday in compliance with a civil court judgment last month. He told local media that he would appeal the court’s decision as he had used the phone for official business.
The court ordered Aslam on June 24 to repay the amount within five months.
The phone bills were flagged in the housing ministry’s 2011 audit report. Aslam told the Maldives Independent at the time that the expenses were “not unreasonable.”
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