 As minister, Gowin began a streamline program to remove bureaucratic hurdles from 49 professions in order to boost employment, including taxi drivers and tourist guides.Gowin's ministry also oversaw the criminal investigation on the collapse of investment firm Amber Gold (a company that turned out to be a financial pyramid) and its subsidiary airline OLT Express in 2012.However, Gowin was criticized over his ministry's belated discovery of the firm's financial wrongdoings, as well as a legal loophole that allowed the firm to operate without a banking license.