Maafushi Council chair arrested in connection with missing half-million rufiya
01 Sep 2013, 1:59 PM
Ahmed Nazeer
Police have arrested the chair of Maafushi island council in connection with the alleged theft of MVR 520,000 (US$33,722) from the council’s budget, which was found missing from a safe in the island council secretariat.
Local newspaper ‘Haveeru’ reported a local councillor as claiming that Abdulla Mufeed of the Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM) had been taken into custody.
Police revealed that the case had been reported on 26 August before the council chair was arrested on Thursday night (August 29), while he was in Male’.
Police said the investigation team had obtained documents related to the case as well as questioned people to clarify related information.
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