State witnesses offered political posts for testimony, says MP Nazim
11 Mar 2015, 2:00 PM
Hassan Mohamed
Ruling Progressive Party of the Maldives (PPM) MP Ahmed Nazim has alleged state witnesses were offered jobs in exchange for testifying against him in a corruption trial.
The former Deputy Speaker of Majlis was charged with four counts of corruption in late 2009 for allegedly conspiring to defraud the former Ministry of Atolls Development.
In February 2014, the High Court upheld the Criminal Court’s dismissal of all four counts of corruption.
The appellate court upheld the Criminal Court’s refusal to accept testimony by Nazim’s former employees, referring to a Supreme Court precedent which established that accomplices to a crime could not testify for or against an alleged partner to the crime.
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