Gayoom’s children pay MVR2m debt
Faris and Ghassan Maumoon’s candidacies were in doubt over the decreed debt.
12 Feb 2019, 9:00 AM
The four children of former president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom have settled an MVR2.1 million (US$136,186) debt in accordance with a two-year-old civil court judgment.
Faris, Ghassan, Yumna and Dunya Maumoon were ordered by the court in late 2017 to make the outstanding payment to Rasheed Carpentry and Construction (RCC), a company with links to the family of former defence minister Mohamed Nazim.
The payment was made after the High Court rejected an appeal of the lower court decision when lawyers representing Ghassan reportedly failed to show up for a hearing last week.
The candidacies of Faris and Ghassan for the upcoming parliamentary elections were in doubt due to the unpaid debt. The parliamentary election law requires candidates not to have a decreed debt.
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