Jordan Times
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Gov’t appoints
temporary board to run Islamic charity
Amman’s prosecutor general dissolved the charity’s administration
on Sunday pending legal action
AMMAN (JT) — The Ministry of Social Development (MoSD)
on Monday appointed a seven-member ad hoc board to run an Islamic charity
affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood.
The temporary administrative body was appointed following a decision by Amman’s
prosecutor general the day before to dissolve the administration of the Islamic
Centre Charity Society as of July 9, pending legal action.
The new board is headed by Bassam Omoush, a former Islamist MP and minister of
administrative reform. He is considered a defector from the Islamic Action
Front, the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Jordan News Agency, Petra, said Minister of Social Development Suleiman
Tarawneh had issued instructions to officially inform the original board to halt
all their activities.
The Cabinet referred the charity’s file to the prosecutor’s office for legal
action last Wednesday after a joint committee comprising officials from the
Audit Bureau and the MoSD found alleged discrepancies in the society’s records.
In its report, the panel detailed “violations, reservations and comments,” on
the financial performance of the organisation, which by law reports to the MoSD.
An inside source at the society told The Jordan Times on Sunday that the report
implicated 15 charity officials with “minor” administrative violations that had
already been dealt with internally, insisting that the government’s moves are
guided by political motives.