ACC investigating former Adhaalath Party head’s bribery allegations against two judges
21 Feb 2013, 5:14 PM
Mohamed Naahee
The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) is examining photographs of all pilgrims who went on hajj last year, following allegations of bribery levied against two sitting judges.
The allegations were made by former President of the Adhaalath Party, Sheikh Hussain Rasheed.
Sheikh Rasheed said during a Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) rally in January that he had met a Maldivian businessman while in Saudi Arabia, who told him he had paid two Maldivian judges a sum of MVR 12.3 million (US$ 797,148.41).
According to the report, the ACC began analysing the photographs to identity the businessman to which the former Adhaalath Party leader had referred.
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