ICOM orders tourism ministry to release MMPRC lease-hold agreements

Information Commissioner Hussain Fiyaz Moosa on Sunday, ordered the Ministry of Tourism to release information regarding the lease-hold agreements of islands and lagoons leased through the Maldives Marketing and Public Relations Corporation (MMPRC) corruption scandal.

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Information commissioner, Hussain Fiyaz Moosa, orders tourism ministry to release MMPRC lease-hold agreements. PHOTO: MIHAARU

Ali Shareef

2020-02-24 11:59:48

Information Commissioner Hussain Fiyaz Moosa on Sunday, ordered the Ministry of Tourism to release information regarding the lease-hold agreements of islands and lagoons leased through the Maldives Marketing and Public Relations Corporation (MMPRC) corruption scandal.

The ruling was issued at a public hearing held at the Information Commission in relation to the tourism ministry's failure to honour a right to information request lodged by a third party seeking both the lease-hold and sublease-hold agreements of some 51 islands and lagoons leased by the ministry.

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