At the committee meeting held on Tuesday, committee Chair MP Ahmed Nazim said that looking at the special audit report of the DMC, the reliability of the government’s public accounting system is now questionable. Hence Nazim said that the issue of the audit report has been scheduled as an emergency issue. “Hence, I now request your attention to this matter,” Nazim said referring to the members of the committee. The police had revealed that two had been arrested so far, regarding the issue of the DMC fraud mentioned in the audit report. However the police did not share any further details of the case to the media. The Auditor General’s 2010 audit report of DMC states that the centre had paid for invoices dating back to 2005 from its 2009 and 2010 budget. The report also stated that the DMC had failed to produce details of these expenses; however it stated that the finance ministry had provided the office with all the documents regarding these transactions by the DMC. The report detailed that the DMC had not verified if these invoices were authentic and that if it had to be paid or not. The report stated that the transactions were authorized by the then head of DMC, state minister Abdulla Shahid, Director General and the Deputy Director General of DMC. The Auditor General stressed that the extreme negligence and incompetence of the heads had caused MVR24 million in damages to the state, hence he urged action to be taken after a full inquiry in to the matter. In response to the matter, Shahid said that the MVR24 million was spent in accordance with the procedures. However he did not go in to any details of the matter.