Former DRP registrar and Customs head charged with corruption
02 May 2012, 10:58 AM
Ahmed Nazeer
Former Principle Collector of Customs Ibrahim Shafiu was produced before the Criminal Court today on charges of corruption.
Shafiu, who was also the ex-registrar of the Dhivehi Rayyithunge Party (DRP), was accused of changing the details of two speedboats imported to the Maldives in 2007 by ‘Sultans of the Seas’, a company owned by DRP Leader and MP Ahmed Thasmeen Ali’s family, and decreasing the customs duty payable for the two vessels.
According to a local newspaper present at the hearing, Shafiu’s lawyer denied the charges and requested the judge give him time to respond to the charges. The judge adjourned the case for seven days.
Newspaper Haveeru reported that Shafiu had been living abroad after the fall of former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom’s government in 2008, and arrested at the airport when he arrived back in the Maldives last month.
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