Showing posts with label Conflict of interest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Conflict of interest. Show all posts

Thursday, February 19, 2009

3 Places From Which Mansoor Has to Resign

Numero uno: Air Mauritius. He's part of the board that's responsible for a hedging mess that's going to dwarf the Rs4.76 billion that government has budgeted to spend on secondary and tertiary education this financial year.

The second place is as Financial Secretary. He has made a mess of Mauritius whichever way you look at it. We are a less competitive and more unequal country since he was handed the job by his university buddy in 2006. And after robust inflation with average growth of the past three years we're now going to get robust inflation with anemic growth with unemployment stuck in the double digits for all intents and purposes. And that's before the damning audit report.

And finally as Chairman of the Investment Committee of the National Pension Fund because he can't make the financial-markets-moving rules and head the country's largest pension fund at the same time. That's a conflict of interest.

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Scandale MCB/NPF: Leçons Pas Apprises

Il y a urgence à modifier la National Pensions Act et la National Savings Act pour une raison capitale. Ali Mansoor se retrouve au centre d’un conflit d’intérêt étant donné l’impact que peuvent avoir les mesures budgétaires sur les marchés financiers. Des mesures qu’il aurait suggérées probablement lui-même comme secrétaire financier. 

Par exemple, la baisse de la taxe corporative à 15% qui a été responsable de l’envolée de la bourse de Port-Louis était connue avant tout le monde de Mansoor qui porte aussi la casquette de président du comité d’investissement du NPF/NSF. Il ne peut pas créer les règles du jeu et être le joueur le plus important à la fois. Mansoor doit donc immédiatement se récuser du comité d’investissement.