Gayoom and former ministers seeking legal advice over AG’s demands
25 Mar 2010, 8:41 PM
Former president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom and many of his cabinet ministers are seeking legal advice after Auditor General Ibrahim Naeem sent their names to the Prosecutor General’s office for failing to declare their assets.
Naeem claimed that former president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom and many of his ministers, as well as several members of the current government, had refused to provide a statement of their assets as required by Article 138 of the new Constitution.
The article requires every member of the Cabinet to “annually submit to the Auditor General a statement of all property and monies owned by him, business interests and all assets and liabilities.”
DRP member and spokesman for the former president, Mohamed ‘Mundhu’ Hussain Shareef, said the Auditor General’s request had “no legal weight under the new constitution”, and that Gayoom would be issuing a formal statement on the matter.
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