The case where a third party wanted to falsify and put forward submission forms, documents and fingerprint scans of the Heritage Ministry's ex-State Minister Mohamed Thoriq to the PNC has seen developments, where the third party in question, ruling People's National Congress (PNC), have been penalized. Due to a lack of evidence, no criminal charges have been pressed against the form submission. Ex-State Minister Thoriq is said to have played no part in this.

The issue of falsified documents being submitted to the PNC under Thoriq's name was raised by Thoriq himself on 31st December 2024. The authorities have stated this Tuesday that the fingerprints given alongside the documents didn't result in any matches when they ran it through their database.

The Elections Commission was informed that it was an invalid form and as a result, PNC was fined MVR 5,000 under the Political Parties Act.

The police has stated however, that there wasn't enough evidence to file a criminal charge.

Thoriq took to social media to express his worries about the authorities not looking into the matter of his personal information being used by a third party, without his consent, to submit documents into the PNC under his name. He further stated that this would further embolden such acts of forgery and scams.

He urged the National Integrity Commission (NIC) to look into the matter due to the fact that no action was taken despite it being known who was involved in signing the forms, forging signatures, forging fingerprints, and the parties that were in charge of checking the legitimacy of these documents.

PNC released a statement regarding the criticism surrounding submission of invalid forms, stating there had been some instances of invalid forms being submitted to the Elections Commission during a membership drive.

The criticism came amid allegations that the Department of National Registration (DNR) was misusing information to admit people to the PNC, along with photographs showing persons inside the DNR offices filling up party membership forms. Allegations were brought up against Minister of Homeland Security regarding this issue, with him denying all allegations.

The Elections Commission has stated that there have been 300 incidents where individuals were falsely signed to political parties or changed to another party in the past six months.