Police have said that following rumours on social media on how Economic Crime Department Head Superintendent of Police Rajunee Shuaib had received a Vinares flat, they are now looking into the matter.
Police have said that following rumours on social media on how Economic Crime Department Head Superintendent of Police Rajunee Shuaib had received a Vinares flat, they are now looking into the matter.
Police Spokesperson Ahmed Shifan said that they are making the necessary inquiries in the matter.
Claims on social media allege that Rajunee, who had also participated in Thursday's press conference regarding the wrongful allocation of land plots, had received his Vinares flat outside of the set procedures and policies.
The list of Vinares flat recipients circulating on social media also has Rajunee's name on it.
Mihaaru News cites the documents granting Rajunee the Vinares flat as stating that the flat had been issued in 2022. It has been reported that he received the Vinares flat in exchange of a Hiyaa flat.
The issues in Vinares flat allocation are around the granting of the remaining 400 flats after this administration came to office.
After the start of this administration, HDC announced allocation of these flats, and later withdrew it. HDC has earlier said that the remaining flats would be allocated to those who had made agreements with Sealife and made payments and had entered agreements with the government. Also amongst recipients would be those who had lost flats after having been allocated them from Gulhi Falhu.
However, Mihaaru News reports that they had learned from a source that HDC had tampered with the Sealife list which is not in the public domain. They report that persons not on the Sealife list had been added to it through creating fake paperwork indicating they had paid for Sealife flats.
Some of the people originally on the Sealife list had been removed after they failed to obtain bank loans and were unable to make the payments. These names had then been wrongfully replaced with other names. Some of these forged documents have been submitted to court, obtaining court orders.
It has been learned that this was done through making payments to specific persons within HDC.