Qualitat Education, the company which won the bid for a state building in reclaimed Hulhumale to be developed as an international school, has annulled the shares of two stakeholders who are the spouses of two High Court judges.
The wife of High Court’s Chief Judge Abdulla Didi, Ganiya Abdul Ghafoor, and the wife of Judge Sujau Usman, Minnath Naseer were stakeholders of Qualitat Education when it won the bid from among three other firms that applied.
Mihaaru understands that the company annulled the two ladies’ shares last week while the Anti-Corruption Commission had ordered the education ministry to halt the school handover temporarily while it probed allegations of involved corruption in Qualitat’s winning bid. However it remains unclear whether the two ladies sold or left their stakes of the company.
The Anti-Corruption Commission Act’s list of persons banned from holding shares of business companies associated with foreign firms include spouses of High Court judges. Qualitat Education is operated in partnership with Sri Lanka’s Gateway College.
Qualitat Education had also messaged students’ parents of winning the bid for the government building, where Lale Youth International School was operated, prior to any official announcements by the government.
It is also notable that the bid for the lowest fee was lobbied by Biz Atolls Pvt Ltd, the local company that had run Lale School in collaboration with a Turkish firm before the building was taken back from them at the end of their term.
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