🇲🇺 Air Mauritius grounds seven of its own as the Kroll fallout hits management

Air Mauritius grounds seven of its own as the Kroll fallout hits management

Seven Air Mauritius managers were suspended on Thursday, as the national airline turns the Kroll report on its plane deals into an internal reckoning. The carrier calls the move a precautionary step, not yet a punishment: the seven were pulled aside to stop anyone tampering with evidence while investigators keep picking through how the fleet was run during the airline's spell under voluntary administration.

What the airline will not say is who. No names, no job titles, no account of what each manager is meant to have done. A second account casts the seven as senior figures, and management went quiet when reporters pressed for an official line.

The Kroll findings already pinned Rs 1.2 billion of losses on a handful of aircraft transactions. Suspending people is the easy part. The number that will matter is how many of the seven are still out once the disciplinary file, if there is one, actually lands.

Seven suspensions look decisive; the test is whether any of them survives into a charge.

Ravatomanga bids again for bail in the Rs 7.4 billion laundering case

Mamy Ravatomanga is trying again. The Malagasy businessman, held over the alleged laundering of Rs 7.4 billion, asked the Bail and Remand Court for release, arguing that seven months in custody with no end date shreds the presumption of innocence. His lawyers note the Financial Crimes Commission promised back in February to close its inquiry within three months, and still has not.

Appearing by video from the maximum security prison at Melrose, Ravatomanga leaned on his fragile health and his fears for his safety inside. The court rules on 20 July.

Phoenix pet shop case widens after remains found at a second site

The cruelty case against a Phoenix pet shop just grew a second address. Acting on a fresh tip, inspectors from the animal welfare society and police searched another premises linked to the same owner and found remains of dead animals, along with signs that live ones had been kept there too.

The owner, already arrested after the 28 June raid that sealed the original shop, was called to the scene. Under the Animal Welfare Act, cruelty is a criminal offence, not a fine to shrug off.

Government reopens the 1941 Waqf Act for a full rewrite

Housing Minister Shakeel Mohamed sat down this week with the Waqf Board, property administrators and Muslim scholars to reshape the Waqf Act, a law untouched since 1941. What began as a bid to align it with global rules against money laundering has grown into a full overhaul, with amendments due in the coming Finance Bill.

Lower Secondary gets a rewrite to keep pupils from dropping out

The Education Ministry is redrawing the Lower Secondary curriculum to line it up with the School Certificate and stop weaker pupils from falling away after primary school. Science and maths shift toward projects and real problems, languages lean harder on speaking and argument. The pitch is flexibility, so more pupils reach the exam still in the game.

Shorts

Postal workers march in Port-Louis Saturday – The postal workers' union has police clearance to march through the capital on Saturday over job security.

Reward Money file sits with the DPP – The financial crimes agency closed its Reward Money inquiry; SP Jagai's file has sat with the DPP since 20 May.

Arnaud Lagesse takes the Alteo chair – IBL chief Arnaud Lagesse has added the chairmanship of sugar group Alteo, effective 1 July.

Airport arrest over an unpaid ad bill – The financial crimes squad held an Indian visitor, 60, at Plaisance airport over an unpaid advertising bill.

Two coasts, two new luxury projects – Sunlife and Medine unveiled coastal luxury developments on opposite sides of the island this week.

2,453

jobs vanished from export factories over the year to March, an 8.1% drop that pulled the sector's workforce down to 27,652.

$2.5 billion

the bet behind Microsoft's new AI arm, Frontier, which opens with 6,000 staff to help firms actually run the tools they keep buying.

3%

the growth Statistics Mauritius still pencils for the economy this year, flat on 2025 even as global risks tug the other way.

Three Sahel juntas start pulling out of the ICC

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have formally begun walking out of the International Criminal Court, the global tribunal for war crimes that they accuse of bias against Africa. The three juntas have spent two years cutting ties with Western institutions, and this is the cleanest break yet.

Leaving takes a year to bite, so cases already open do not vanish overnight. The signal to their own citizens is the louder point.

Guinea trims ex-PM's graft sentence

A Guinean appeals court cut former Prime Minister Fofana's corruption sentence, clearing his path out after more than four years inside.

Uganda flies its citizens out of South Africa

Uganda brought home a first 273 nationals as unrest against migrants spreads across South Africa, with more charter flights promised.

Iran turns Khamenei's funeral into a show of strength

Iran has opened a funeral spanning six days for Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, staged as a display of strength months after the strikes that killed him. Crowds, processions and state television all point at one message: the system holds.

A fragile ceasefire with the United States and Israel frames the mourning. Grief and geopolitics are hard to tell apart here.

Canada plots a pipeline to sell oil past the US

Canada and Alberta are backing a pipeline to the Pacific coast to ship crude toward Asia and lean less on American buyers.

Klopp next in line for the Germany job?

Can one manager fix a broken Germany? The federation wants Jurgen Klopp to replace Nagelsmann, who walked after a first-round World Cup exit.

A cruise ship's rare virus scare is finally over

Thirteen people caught a rare virus carried by rodents aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius, and three of them died before the World Health Organization declared the outbreak over. The culprit was the Andes hantavirus, which usually spreads on land, nowhere near the open sea.

How it got aboard a ship in the first place is the part scientists still want answered.

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