PARAMARIBO – Agriculture, Stock Breeding and Fisheries Minister Mike Noersalim recently confirmed that Melkcentrale NV (MCP) is caught in a large scale financial scandal...
and that millions vanished due to the lack of security mechanisms within the state company that produces milk and dairy products.
“The new board of directors is on the job for just a week and has already established that there is serious mismanagement. During the course of the investigation it became clear that there was more going on than just the disappearance of milk. The financial administration does not fun tion the way it is supposed to,” said Noersalim. The exact figure that was stolen must still be determined. Everything that looks like theft must be reported to the police immediately. We will not tolerated that state funds are taken,” said the minister who added that the lack of security measures left the door wide open for embezzlement. Minister Noersalim announced that the theft has already been reported to the police and that an investigation was launched by the police and the Public Prosecutor’s Office. He did not wish to comment on the disappearance of several containers of milk powder. “The police are still busy with the investigation.”