The Commissioner for Voluntary Organisations (OCVO) said that from investigations carried out it resulted that the claims of sexual misconduct at YMCA were unfounded.

In a statement on Saturday, the commissioner referred to a complaint received by his office concerning serious allegations of sexual misconduct at YMCA.

An operational review carried by the OCVO also showed that YMCA has very good policies in place on several areas, including safeguarding issues, both in terms of taking care of victims and in terms of establishing the veracity of allegations, the commissioner said.

These measures and their effective implementation by the senior management of YMCA were key for the OCVO to re-instate the organisation’s compliance.

In view of the findings carried at a very early stage of the investigations, both the organisation’s CEO and therefater the other individual mentioned in the original complaint were re-instated in their positions as the allegations in  their regard proved unfounded.   These fake allegations aimed wholly to build a frame-up and directed towards character assassination of said victims, the commissioner said.