Maldives Airports Company Limited (MACL) has ordered the Ibrahim Nasir International Airport (INIA) operator GMR to pay the deducted MVR8.2 million from the concession fee payable to the government for the past three months. MACL Managing Director Mohamed Ibrahim revealed that GMR had been earlier informed that the letter from the former Chairman approving the airport operator to omit the USD25 from every departing passenger had been declared null and void.
“We had informed that the letter from the former Chairman of MACL was now invalid and hence must not be followed. In addition we had also informed that no deductions can be made from the concession fee,†MD said.
Mohamed Ibrahim further said that the agreement made between MACL and GMR would clearly state that the MVR126 million deducted by GMR was a compulsory amount payable to the government.
GMR had deducted USD25 as airport development charge (ADC) and USD2 as insurance fee from every departing passenger from INIA from the total concession fees paid to the government for the past three months.
MACL had stated earlier that GMR was required to pay USD8,709,428.00 as concession fee including oil concession fee amounting to USD8,428,387.00, but that GMR has so far for the first three months of 2012 paid only USD525,355.00.
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