RABAT, Jan 10, 2013 (AFP)
RABAT, Jan 10, 2013 (AFP)
While most company executives are anxiously cutting costs in austere times, one Moroccan CEO happily oversaw chocolate purchases worth 35,000 euros last year, a local newspaper reported on Thursday.
Maroclear, a partly state-owned firm headed by Fathia Bennis which monitors the stock exchange, spent 2.3 million dirhams (206,000 euros) on chocolate in the last seven years, according to invoices obtained by Arabic daily Al-Akhbar.
Bennis, a member of the ruling Justice and Development Party (PJD), confirmed the claims, but defended her company’s sweet tooth.
“Every Christmas we receive chocolate presents,” she told the paper.
“So don’t we have the right to buy chocolate?”
Maroclear’s former financial director, Ali Benmiloudi, also confirmed the figures were authentic, adding that the firm had bought five tonnes of chocolate in seven years.
