Minister suspended after release of report on corruption scandal
Several politicians and prominent businesses were named in the long-awaited report on the country’s biggest corruption scandal.
14 Feb 2019, 9:00 AM
President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih has suspended Youth Minister Ahmed Mahloof and a state minister over transactions conducted with a company that was used to funnel millions of dollars stolen from state coffers.
The top officials were named in a long-awaited report of an investigation by the Anti-Corruption Commission into the theft of US$90 million from the Maldives Marketing and Public Relations Corporation, a corruption scandal of unprecedented scale in Maldivian history.
According to the 776-page report released Thursday morning, Mahloof was among several politicians, lawmakers and prominent businesses who received large sums of money to their bank accounts from SOF Pvt Ltd, the company implicated in siphoning off the bulk of funds stolen from the MMPRC.
Mahloof was asked to stay home until an investigation was concluded, he confirmed in a tweet, adding that he respected the president’s decision.
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