{"id":1435,"date":"2015-02-22T16:15:22","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T16:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2015-07-27T13:58:06","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T13:58:06","slug":"is-the-world-taking-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/?p=1435","title":{"rendered":"IS THE WORLD TAKING NOTE?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nTHE EX PRIME MINISTER & NOW THE EX GOVERNOR<\/strong><\/p>\n

OF THE BANK OF MAURITIUS ARRESTED!<\/strong><\/p>\n

IS THE WORLD TAKING NOTE?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Following on from the recent arrest of the ex Prime Minister of Mauritius Navin Ramgoolam, now the ex-governor of the Bank of Mauritius, Mr. Rundheersing Bheenick, has been arrested and charged with a number of crimes; including money laundering, \u2018larceny in receipt of wages\u2019, \u2018possession of stolen property\u2019, amongst other offences.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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After the recent general election in December 2014, which saw the shock defeat of Navin Ramgoolam in the constituency his family have held since independence, the new government appointed a new governor for the Bank of Mauritius. The ex-governor was not very happy with the decision, and told the press how he felt about it. Very soon after, it is said that the police went to his residence and discovered 12 boxes of confidential documents belonging to the Bank of Mauritius, some of them \u2018top secret\u2019 documents; they also reportedly found one of the bank\u2019s safes that had disappeared from the Bank of Mauritius Tower building at the end of 2014. The \u201ctop secret\u201d documents apparently contain \u201cexplosive\u201d information relating to the financial transactions of a local conglomerate. The police also found Rs 1million in foreign currencies (euros, US dollars and pound sterling) at Bheenick\u2019s residence. This follows on from the raid carried out at the residences of Mr Ramgoolam, the ex-prime minister and ex-leader of the Labour Party. Two large safes, together with suitcases, full of money (rupees, euros, US dollars and pound sterling) were found at the ex-prime minister\u2019s residence. It took a while to count all the money and it said to amount to hundreds of millions of rupees. Many of the wads of cash found had the Bank of Mauritius seal on them. It is surprising \u2013 especially given the fact that Mauritius is an internationally well known tax haven – \u00a0that hitherto no foreign journalists have picked up on the story.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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It is moreover known that many Mauritians are listed amongst the names of leaked account holders of HSBC Swiss bank accounts. The details have been in the hands of European newspaper editors among others for some time. Has any investigative journalist from Mauritius made any effort to find out more?! As we await the next chapter of this unsavoury saga we hope to see more foreign interest in this news story \u2013 it is high time that the world investigates more of what is going on in Mauritius which has hitherto escaped the type of scrutiny which our political class and the offshore industry no doubt merit.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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THE EX PRIME MINISTER & NOW THE EX GOVERNOR OF THE BANK OF MAURITIUS ARRESTED! IS THE WORLD TAKING NOTE? \u00a0 Following on from the recent arrest of the ex Prime Minister of Mauritius Navin Ramgoolam, now the ex-governor of the Bank of Mauritius, Mr. Rundheersing Bheenick, has been arrested and charged with a number… Continue reading IS THE WORLD TAKING NOTE?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people-misc","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1547,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions\/1547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}