Political appointees implicated in corruption scandal suspended
Two board directors of state-owned enterprises were told to stay home.
20 Feb 2019, 9:00 AM
Two board directors of state-owned enterprises have been suspended after they were named among individuals who received payments from a company implicated in the country’s biggest corruption scandal.
Along with two ministers who were also suspended last week, the political appointees were named in the Anti-Corruption Commission’s long-awaited investigation report into the theft of resort acquisition costs paid to the Maldives Marketing and Public Relations Corporation.
Two companies with shares owned by Ahmed Mausoom, chairman of the Malé Water and Sewerage Company, were paid US$6.1 million from SOF Pvt Ltd, a company that was used to funnel the bulk of US$90 million stolen from the MMPRC, according to the report released last Thursday.
SOF – which was alleged to have used a large money laundering network – also transferred US$50,000 to the bank account of Abdulla Azim, non-executive director of Island Aviation Services, the anti-corruption watchdog found.
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