37. With regard to the award of the passport contract to JSL, Geedi and Darawiish told the Monitoring Group that they had studied JSL’s project proposal in 2005 and did not “have any other practical proposal at that time.”[189] Geedi added that the Government of Oman offered to fund the ePassport project, but that it was just a discussion and that although he had sent Hassan Ahmed Jaama (Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation) to Oman to follow up with the authorities, nothing had been formalized.
37. With regard to the award of the passport contract to JSL, Geedi and Darawiish told the Monitoring Group that they had studied JSL’s project proposal in 2005 and did not “have any other practical proposal at that time.”[189] Geedi added that the Government of Oman offered to fund the ePassport project, but that it was just a discussion and that although he had sent Hassan Ahmed Jaama (Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation) to Oman to follow up with the authorities, nothing had been formalized.