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Mem­bers of a Joint Se­lect Com­mit­tee (JSC) yes­ter­day ex­pressed con­cern over what they de­scribed as trou­bling fi­nan­cial con­tra­dic­tions in­volv­ing the Na­tion­al Main­te­nance Train­ing and Se­cu­ri­ty Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (MTS).

The meet­ing was a con­tin­u­a­tion of an in­quiry in­to MTS op­er­a­tions that be­gan last month. It was pre­vi­ous­ly re­vealed that the com­pa­ny is owed ap­prox­i­mate­ly $850 mil­lion by the gov­ern­ment and sev­er­al state agen­cies, while si­mul­ta­ne­ous­ly ow­ing an es­ti­mat­ed $180 mil­lion to con­trac­tors and ser­vice providers.

Cen­tral to the de­bate was why bal­ances from loans ob­tained in 2024 and 2025 were re­turned to the Min­istry of Fi­nance de­spite sig­nif­i­cant out­stand­ing debts owed to MTS by state agen­cies.