Mauritius PM sacks senior central bank official, local media report


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  • Friday, 29 Aug 2025

FILE PHOTO: Mauritius' Prime Minister Navinchandra Ramgoolam addresses the 66th United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters in New York September 24, 2011. REUTERS/Chip East/File Photo

PORT LOUIS (Reuters) -Mauritius Prime Minister Navinchandra Ramgoolam has dismissed the central bank's second deputy governor, a newspaper in the Indian Ocean island nation reported on Friday, citing government sources.

The decision to sack Gerard Sanspeur was reported by L'Express newspaper and follows local media reports of a rift between top officials at the Bank of Mauritius that alarmed Ramgoolam.

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