Officials of the Fisheries Department are under investigation by the police over the misappropriation of public funds.

The government said today that an audit had revealed that there had been misappropriation of funds due to the governemnt over a number of years. The police were called in on February 7 and investigations are ongoing.

The government said it wanted to net the ‘big fish’ and appealed to anyone having information to come forward.

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