ACC failed to investigate case against Sea Life

The corruption case against Sea Life has been reported to the Inquiry Commission created by President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, on Monday, because the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) failed to carry out an investigation.

Booking fees and down payment for the flats were collected from the people who signed up to confirm their bookings. However, the company has only built the foundation of the tower since taking charge of the HDC approved housing project by Sea life in 2015.

201 people filed a case against the Economic Ministry and HDC as well. This law suit is the largest class action filed in the history of the Maldives.

According to reports, Sea Life has to pay back MVR 20 million to those who have made their payment.

The Managing Director of Sea Life Ahmed Moosa (Ammaty), who had appeared in music production videos in the recent past, have been reported to have migrated to the neighbouring country Sri Lanka.

The case was presented to ACC on October in order to see if there was an element of corruption with regards to the Housing Development Corporation (HDC). The state lawyer Mariyam Shunaanaa, represented 201 people who filed the case against Sea Life.

Shunaanaa has presented the case to the newly created inquiry commission on Monday. She stated that she has sent the case to the inquiry commission because ACC had failed to respond to the case after all this time.

“This case has been presented to the inquiry commission because of top officials of ACC were accused of corruption with regards to the housing project of Sea Life,” said Shunaanaa.

With her letter, Shunanaa presented the paperwork of 201 people who made their down payment for the flats to the President of the Asset Recovery Commission Ahmed Assad.

ACC, however, has not made any comments regarding the current situation.

The police have been investigating the case against Sea Life as well. Hence, the police has requested to provide the paperwork related to the Sea Life housing project in the reclaimed suburbs of Hulhumale.

More than 280 people paid MVR 50,000 as registration fees to secure a place amongst the 300 housing units in the first phase of the Sea Life project. Furthermore, some have had given 20 percent as down payment. According to reports, Sea Life has to pay back MVR 20 million to those who had made their payment.