www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS | 21 SPORT | 34 Al Shaheen project: Italy’s Conte QP hints at ‘service appointed as new continuity’ Chelsea manager TUESDAY 5 APRIL 2016 • 27 Jumada II 1437 • Volume 21 • Number 6757 thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar Deputy Emir meets Russian minister Emir congratulates External auditor Senegal President DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani sent yester- for 2022 FIFA day a cable of congratulations to the President of Senegal, Macky Sall, on his country’s National Day, labour welfare reports QNA. Al Qaeda leader the SC’s requirements regarding dies in US strike Supreme Committee the recruitment, employment, living and working conditions of for Delivery and everyone engaged on an SC project, WASHINGTON: A US air strike in Legacy appoints said a press statement issued by SC northwest Syria on Sunday hit a yesterday. meeting of senior Al Qaeda offi- Impactt Ltd as Developed by the SC’s Workers’ cials at which prominent leader independent monitor. Welfare Unit (WWU) in close Abu Firas Al Suri was present, the consultation with stakeholders, Pentagon spokesman said yester- including contractors, FIFA and non- day, reports Reuters. government organisations (NGOs), The US military is still assess- The Peninsula the new requirements update the ing whether Al Suri died, said the original WW Standards, which were spokesman. “We deemed that he published in February 2014. (Al Suri)was present at that meet- DOHA: Qatar has hired an inter- These revised standards are Deputy Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani met at the Emiri Diwan yesterday with the ing and we’re trying to determine nationally-famed entity as a now in the process of being further Russian President’s Special Representative for the Middle East and Africa and Deputy Foreign Minister, if he has been removed from the third-party and independent watch- embedded throughout the supply Mikhail Bogdanov. Talks dealt with bilateral relations and issues of mutual interest. battlefield.” dog to further ensure the welfare of chain in a series of workshops |with workers engaged in infrastructure contractors and sub-contractors. → See also page 8 development projects related to FIFA In addition to numerous visits 2022 World Cup. by non-government organisations The Supreme Committee for to SC projects, the SC’s Workers’ Delivery and Legacy (SC) has Welfare Unit and senior SC man- appointed Impactt Ltd as an agement conducted a two-day Illegal villa partitions cease after crackdown independent third-party External trip to London in January 2016 to Monitor to further bolster the brief Amnesty International, Engi- auditing and inspections process of neers Against Poverty, Building and By Sanaullah Ataullah housing that serves mostly low- approvals is that the small contract- trucks at the slightest suspicion and the SC Workers’ Welfare Standards Wood Workers’ International (BWI), The Peninsula income expatriate families and single ing firms that thrived on the unlawful zeroing in on any illegal construc- (WW Standards), a set of enforceable Humanity United and the Interna- workers. activity are unwilling to do the work tion activity. The municipalities have principles and regulations which are tional Labour Organisation (ILO) on It is feared that the greedy mid- anymore due to what sources say are cracked down on hundreds of ille- incorporated into all contracts for the updated standards, progress to DOHA: Civic crackdowns on illegally dlemen in the illicit business may prohibitive fines. gally partitioned villas across the the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar. date, and to get feedback from these partitioned villas have brought the take advantage of the shortfall to The municipalities have increased country, triggering fear among mid- The second edition of the organisations. activity to a near halt. increase the rents. A major reason vigilance and agile inspectors are dlemen, say sources. WW Standards was published Market sources say the situation the unscrupulous elements are una- always on the move, trailing con- on March 1, and clearly sets out → Continued on page 2 has led to shortage of affordable ble to partition villas without civic struction materials transported on → Continued on page 6 Municipality shutters 18 outlets By Mohammed Osman beauty salons. Inspectors destroyed Veterinary doctors of the munic- The Peninsula 288 tonnes of foodstuff found unfit ipality last month supervised the for human consumption. slaughtering of 64,210 animals, A majority of the inspected facili- including sheep, cows and camels. ties — 1,854 — were found complying They also checked 1,472 tonnes DOHA: The Doha Municipality tem- with health requirements, while 29 of imported fishes and destroyed porarily shut down 18 food outlets outlets were found violating the law, 3.3 tonnes of meat unfit for human last month for violating the food the Ministry of Municipality and consumption. monitoring law. The closed outlets Environment said yesterday. The inspectors detected 223 vio- included six restaurants, two gro- Municipal inspectors settled lations of the law at commercial and ceries, three cafeterias, a sweetmeat the cases of two violating food out- industrial facilities during surprise shop, a traditional kitchen, two food lets after they took corrective steps. raids and settled 74 violations after stores and three other facilities. They examined around 12,466 tonnes they took corrective measures and Municipality Health Control of vegetables and fruits at the Cen- met all conditions. inspectors conducted 2,604 inspec- tral Vegetable Market and destroyed The ministry has urged con- tions in March. A total of 2,238 were 271 tonnes found unfit for human sumers to check all foodstuff before in food outlets, barber shops and consumption. purchase. Panama Papers trigger worldwide probes Reuters British Prime Minister David Cam- Syria skirted sanctions eron said his late father’s reported links to an offshore company were BEIRUT: Syria’s regime has been a “private matter”. Iceland’s Prime LONDON/PANAMA CITY: Gov- able to circumvent international Minister Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson ernments across the world began sanctions and fund its war effort could not immediately be reached for investigating possible financial through shadow companies, comment on the naming of his wife in wrongdoing by the rich and pow- according to leaked “Panama connection with a secretive company erful yesterday after a leak of four Papers” seen by French daily Le in an offshore haven, which brought decades of documents from a Pana- Monde, reports AFP. opposition calls for him to resign. manian law firm that specialised in Pakistan denied any wrongdo- setting up offshore companies. funds hidden for tax evasion, money ing by the family of Prime Minister The “Panama Papers” revealed laundering, sanctions busting, drug Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif after financial arrangements of global pol- deals or other crimes. his daughter and son were linked iticians and public figures including The law firm, Mossack Fonseca, to offshore companies. Ukrainian friends of Russian President Vladimir which says it has set up more than President Petro Poroshenko did not Putin, relatives of the prime ministers 240,000 offshore companies for cli- comment on his reported offshore of Britain, Iceland and Pakistan, and ents around the globe, denied any links. Australia, Austria, France, Swe- the president of Ukraine. wrongdoing and called itself the vic- den and the Netherlands were among While holding money in offshore tim of a campaign against privacy. countries which said they had begun companies is not illegal, journalists The Kremlin said the documents investigating the allegations. who received the leaked documents contained “nothing concrete and said they could provide evidence of nothing new” while a spokesman for → See also page 17 02 TUESDAY 5 APRIL 2016 HOME Greetings sent to Senegal ‘Approach to labour welfare transparent’ President Continued from page 1 Standards. “We also assisted the SC in The Peninsula & QNA identifying potential tenderers and the Commenting on the independent technical evaluation of tenderers for third party External Monitor coming the external monitor role,” said Dan DOHA: Deputy Emir H H Sheikh on board to enhance monitoring of Viederman, CEO of Verité. Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani the updated WW Standards, SC Sec- With two years’ experience of yesterday sent a cable of congratu- retary General, Hassan Al Thawadi, applying the WW Standards col- lations to Senegal President Macky said: “In line with our continued com- laboratively with contractors and Sall on his country’s National Day. mitment to making tangible progress sub-contractors, the WWU introduces Prime Minister and Interior on workers’ welfare, this appointment a number of amendments in Edition Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin of an independent third party Exter- Two, which seek to bolster regulations Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani sent nal Monitor is an important step for on auditing and inspections, as well a similar cable to President Sall. us. as ethical recruitment. “We will keep improving on The addition of the independ- every step of our journey as we make ent third party External Monitor will Deputy PM meets sure our approach to workers’ wel- mean independent audits of the SC fare progress is transparent and our and its contractors take place on a Russian official updated standards are effectively and regular basis, completing the four- stringently enforced throughout the tier auditing process. DOHA: Deputy Prime Minister entire supply chain and life cycle of “We are delighted to hear the and Minister of State for Cabinet our projects.” news that we have been appointed Affairs H E Ahmed bin Abdullah As part of its holistic approach as External Workers’ Welfare Com- bin Zaid Al Mahmoud yester- to workers’ welfare, the SC’s WWU pliance Monitor. day met the Russian President’s has been working closely with NGOs “Our approach is to put workers envoy to the Middle East and from around the world to accelerate at the centre of everything we do, Africa Mikhail Bogdanov.