Ziyath sentenced to 12 additional years in prison in MMPRC graft case

Former Managing Director of the Maldives Marketing and Public Relations Corporation (MMPRC), Abdulla Ziyath, has been sentenced to an additional 12 years in prison by the Criminal Court.

Ziyath, who is already serving an eight-year prison sentence in connection with the MMPRC scam, faced charges of misappropriating substantial funds allocated to MMPRC in 2014 for various purposes to private companies. The indictment stated that Ziyath transferred a significant sum of money to other companies and embezzled funds designated for the Maldives Tourism Development Corporation (MTDC) to purchase dollars from the Maldives Ports Limited (MPL).