Officials charged over drug kingpin escape
A spokesman from the Prosecutor General’s office told media on Thursday that a case against former prisons commissioner, Moosa Azim, and former deputy home affairs minister, Mohamed Hanim, had been forwarded to the criminal court.
04 Jan 2018, 9:00 AM
Two high ranking former officials have been charged with misuse of authority, three years after an investigation revealed their involvement in letting a high profile drug trafficker leave the country illegally.
A spokesman from the Prosecutor General’s office told media on Thursday that a case against former prisons commissioner, Moosa Azim, and former deputy home affairs minister, Mohamed Hanim, had been forwarded to the criminal court.
Ibrahim Shafaz Abdul Razzak, the leader of a nation-wide drug network, was serving an 18-year jail sentence when on February 5, 2014, he was allowed to go to Sri lanka on medical leave. Shafaz asked the high court to review the case after reaching Sri Lanka.
He was caught in Colombo three months later and brought back to Male, where he resumed his sentence for eight more months. But the high court overturned his sentence in 2015 and freed him, citing insufficient and illegally obtained evidence.
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