Municipality civil servant first to be suspended in Facebook blackmail scandal
09 Mar 2011, 6:06 PM
A senior civil servant working at Male’ Municipality has been suspended by the Civil Service Commission (CSC), reportedly in connection with one of the explicit videos obtained by police from a Facebook blackmail ring.
CSC Commissioner Fahmy Hassan confirmed to Minivan News that the civil servant had been suspended pending an investigation into the offending video, which had been leaked to the internet and reported to the CSC.
“We do not have knowledge of how the video was released, or whether he was being blackmailed,” Fahmy said.
Fahmy noted that there had been previous such incidences that prompted investigations, and these were occasionally unproven.
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