Fresh corruption charges raised against ex-vice president
Seven cases were filed at the criminal court on Sunday.
29 Sep 2019, 9:00 AM
The Prosecutor General’s office on Sunday pressed fresh corruption charges against former vice president Ahmed Adeeb over the theft of US$90 million from the Maldives Marketing and Public Relations Corporation.
Cases were filed at the criminal court on seven counts, the PG office said in a brief press statement.
The cases were forwarded by police on September 21 after a joint investigation with the Anti-Corruption Commission and the presidential commission on asset recovery into “corruption, embezzlement and money laundering carried out through the MMPRC in 2014 and 2015,” it added.
Adeeb is currently serving a three-month jail sentence passed over an attempt to flee the Maldives in defiance of a travel ban imposed by the Supreme Court.
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