Four corruption cases filed for prosecution in Q3
The monthly case reports for the year were released by the Anti-Corruption Commission and showed the body investigated a total of 815 cases up until the third quarter, out of which only 10 were forwarded for prosecution.
02 Nov 2017, 9:00 AM
The country’s anti-corruption watchdog filed just a handful of cases for prosecution during the third quarter of 2017, despite investigating 265 cases during that period.
The monthly case reports for the year were released Wednesday by the Anti-Corruption Commission and showed the body investigated a total of 815 cases up until the third quarter, out of which only 10 were forwarded for prosecution.
It recommended probes and actions to be implemented by the agencies and ministries under scrutiny in most cases, also deciding not to investigate 62 cases submitted to the ACC by the public.
The most prominent case the ACC decided not to pursue was a case involving the Maldives Marketing and Public Relations Corporation corruption scandal.
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