Haitham Misto, the former CEO of Royal Jordanian (RJ, Amman Queen Alia), has been indicted by the Amman Prosecutor General for falsifying documents during his tenure at the carrier's helm, Roya News has reported.
The case relates to the hiring of the Director of Ground Operations at the carrier. According to the indictment, Misto has employed a person to this post despite him not fulfilling the criteria, most notably not having five years of work experience in airline ground operations.
An MP in the Jordanian Parliament has also raised a question about Misto's approval of a wet-leasing contract which had allegedly been given a few days before the airline's supervisory board gave its consent.
Misto was Royal Jordanian CEO between 2015 and 2017 when he was replaced by ex-Air Berlin (1991), Fiji Airways, and Jazeera Airways chief executive Stefan Pichler.
