MALDIVES AG BUILDS AUDIT SYSTEM IN COUNTRY WITH WEAK ACCOUNTING CONTROLS

BY POORNA RODRIGO HAVING being groomed by his country's auditor general's office as a trainee accountant over a decade ago, Niyaz Ibrahim says he feel proud to head this institution today as the Maldives auditor general. Ibrahim assumed the top post in May 2011. The Auditor General's Office (AGO) formerly known as the Maldives Audit Office, in the Indian Ocean archipelago's capital city Malé was where he started his career in 2000 as a trainee accounts officer. "Being a person groomed by AGO and having risen to AGO leadership, I feel proud of AGO," ...


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