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privatised at extremely cheap rates. He demanded an independent audit of the hotel's financial records. The Office of the
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170 million (40%); the private investment was Rs 257.5 million (60%). For public investment, half of the land on which the hotel was to be built was sold to the hotel for a stake of 40%, and the other half was retained in public ownership and leased to the hotel. Estimated to cost Rs 1.5 billion
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from three members out of nine in 1993; the Sharaf and
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