🇲🇺 Padayachy walks out of the CCID swinging at the government

Padayachy walks out of the CCID swinging at the government

Former finance minister Renganaden Padayachy spent Monday afternoon inside the Central Criminal Investigation Department. He left it talking. "Not even two years in power and they are already going after the opposition," he told reporters outside the CCID, framing the questioning as punishment for an economic opinion rather than a crime.

The hearing flows from a complaint over claims that roughly Rs 83 billion was effectively printed under his watch, an allegation the Bank of Mauritius has flatly denied. A formal complaint followed, and police opened the file Padayachy was summoned to answer.

He leaned on his own record to push back. "I was deputy governor of the Bank of Mauritius, then finance minister. I never once filed a complaint against anyone for an opinion expressed on an economic subject," he said, calling economics a "permanent, contradictory debate" that does not belong in a police station.

A money-printing claim that the central bank already denied has now produced a police file but, so far, no charge.

One weekend, two ADSU raids, a wall of synthetic drugs

A 20-year-old was arrested Monday at Residence Barkly in Beau-Bassin after the drug squad's patrol team seized 342 doses of synthetic drugs and Rs 2,775 in suspected sale money.

Two days earlier the same unit hit Roche-Bois twice. One search turned up cannabis resin in a metal box. Hours later, a second home gave up 178 foil sachets of methamphetamine and 96 of heroin, nearly 21 grams of hard drugs in all. Three men, all of them in their twenties, are now in custody and under investigation for trafficking.

A losing bidder takes a road-sign contract to the financial police

Abdullah Moossun, a shareholder in a rival signage firm, walked into the Financial Crimes Commission with his lawyer Rama Valayden and a dossier. His complaint: that a Rs 10 million road-signage tender at the Ministry of Transport was awarded irregularly, and that some of the signs now going up are counterfeit.

The contract was greenlit on 9 March. The ministry says it cooperates. By 28 May the island had logged 57 road deaths this year, more than any full year since 2023.

South Africans cleared a Trou-aux-Biches block in 30 minutes

Thirty-six luxury apartments in Trou-aux-Biches sold out in half an hour, with South African buyers putting down Rs 285.7 million. More than 10,000 South Africans now live here permanently, drawn by a 20% tax ceiling against the 45% they face at home and no tax on capital gains, dividends, or inheritance.

Hospital overtime gets paid before the July walkout starts

Health staff who threatened to stop overtime from July will be paid in June instead. A circular from Jeetoo Hospital says certified overtime claims through end-May must reach finance by 5 June, with cabinet's sign-off and the money now available.

Shorts

Taxi driver, 76, robbed of his car in Pailles – A 28-year-old is accused of beating a marron taxi driver and stealing his car.

Minister eyes pulling ENSafrica's licence – Labour Minister Uteem may recommend revoking the firm's licence over alleged hijab discrimination.

Balaclava beach may be reproclaimed public – After a citizen campaign, the Lands minister is studying reproclamation of the public beach.

Cannabis reform opens to public input – A long-debated cannabis policy review is now inviting public consultation.

Environment police fine noise and fly-tipping – Nationwide sweeps are sanctioning illegal dumping, noise, and waste offences.

Rs 1.45 billion

is what Mauritius earned exporting 3,319 monkeys, mostly long-tailed macaques, in just the first three months of 2026, nearly triple the year before.

500 million euros

in suspicious transactions is what Belgian investigators are probing at Wise, the money-transfer firm, sending its shares lower.

58 deaths

is the road toll for the year so far, after a 23-year-old scooter rider died at Constance and a 25-year-old was hurt.

Kenyans surround an Ebola ward built for Americans

Hundreds of young people massed outside Laikipia Air Base in Nanyuki on Monday, furious that Kenya agreed to host an Ebola quarantine centre for American citizens exposed to the virus. A court already tried to halt the plan last week.

The same week, activists in Kenya marched over a separate grievance: rising gender-based violence and femicide.

UK owes Rwanda nothing for the scrapped asylum deal

The Permanent Court of Arbitration ruled Britain will not pay Rwanda over the cancelled migrant-deportation scheme.

Guinea counts votes after a tense election

Guineans voted in legislative and municipal elections, a step back toward civilian rule since the 2021 coup, despite an opposition boycott.

Iran quits the US peace talks over Lebanon

Iran has suspended its indirect peace talks with Washington, protesting Israel's widening ground offensive in Lebanon and accusing it of breaking the ceasefire.

It is a sharp turn from last week's tentative truce, and a reminder of how fragile that deal always was. Crude prices climbed off a six-week low again on the renewed uncertainty.

New Mandelson files turn up the heat on Starmer

Britain released fresh files on Peter Mandelson's appointment as Washington ambassador, piling pressure on PM Keir Starmer.

France grabs a sanctioned Russian oil tanker

France and allies intercepted the tanker Tagor in the Atlantic to choke Russia's shadow fleet and its war funding.

At 100, he still walks every single morning

Born in Plaine-des-Roches on 30 May 1926, Dinnoo Seesungkur just turned a hundred. His celebration plans are modest. His routine is not.

He still walks every morning, the kind of quiet daily habit that outlasts almost everything else.

🙏 Merci, à demain! 👋

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