Bill impedes Police and ACC's authority: Filza

The Parliament’s Counsellor General Fathmath Filza made a statement on Monday, declaring that the bill proposed by the government, seeking to grant legal powers to the newly-formed presidential commissions on unsolved murders and asset recovery, impedes upon the authority held by both the Maldives Police Service and the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).

The bill, proposed by Maldivian Democratic Party’s (MDP) Parliament Member Mohamed Rasheed, seeks to provide authority to the two inquiry commissions created by President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih for the fulfilment of key electoral pledges concerning the recovery of missing state funds, as well as the true circumstances surrounding two high-profile murders and the abduction of one journalist.