AMMAN - The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) believes that "there is a good possibility of corruption" in the National Resources Investment and Development Corporation (Mawared).
Commenting on the ongoing investigation into suspicion of corruption in four companies out of the 15 firms affiliated with the state-owned Mawared, ACC President Samih Bino said on Thursday that it was premature to come up with final judgements before the probe is completed, but so far, there is a "good possibility that the allegations against the officials under interrogation are founded".
He made his remarks to The Jordan Times after a meeting Prime Minister Samir Rifai held with the editors-in-chief of the Kingdom's major dailies, in which the premier discussed a number of issues of concern to the public, according to sources familiar with the discussions that took place in the meeting.
Rifai noted that ACC prosecutors are interrogating senior staff in the four companies. He also remarked that the ACC probe revealed that thousands of the Mawared's official e-mails were deleted from the company's database.
Bino named the four companies as: Disi Project, the Amman Living Wall, O-Beach and the Brinsley Enterprises, which is a gold and precious metals exploration company that has acquired a large concession area in Sudan's Nubian Desert.
The premier last year referred Mawared's financial and administrative performance report to ACC, which set up an ad hoc committee, which, according to Bino, decided to go ahead with the probe based on the suspicion the anti-graft officials found in the data they scrutinised.
© Jordan Times 2011
