Police have granted an extension on the deadline for the handover of two apartments in Hulhumale' that had allegedly been purchased from Football Association of Maldives (FAM) funds.
Police have granted an extension on the deadline for the handover of two apartments in Hulhumale' that had allegedly been purchased from Football Association of Maldives (FAM) funds.
The extension was granted on request from former President of Football Association of Maldives (FAM) Bassam Adeel Jaleel, who is accused of misusing FAM funds to purchase these apartments.
The initial deadline granted for handover expired yesterday, and Bassam had sent in a request to Police on the same day, asking the deadline be extended till the end of the month.
Police said that in consideration of the points raised in the request letter, they had decided to grant the extension.
Earlier, Police had informed Bassam that if he failed to hand over the apartments today, they would proceed to take the flats under them as directed in Criminal Court's order dated September 28.
Police have accused Bassam of purchasing the two flats in Hulhumale' with funds given by FIFA to assist football clubs in overcoming the challenges faced during the Covid-19 pandemic. Police have since forwarded the case to the Prosecutor General's Office.
In this case, Police also applied to the PG Office to press charges against the seller of the apartments, Amin Construction, as well as then FAM Finance Head Mohamed Ageel and FAM employee Hassan Waheed.
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