Early this morning, Police have searched locations connected to former Road Development Corporation (RDC) Manager Moosa Ali Manik (Mookey) in their investigation into alleged corruption within the corporation during the previous administration.
Early this morning, Police have searched locations connected to former Road Development Corporation (RDC) Manager Moosa Ali Manik (Mookey) in their investigation into alleged corruption within the corporation during the previous administration led by former President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih.
Mihaaru News reports that under a court order, Police searched the residence of Moosa, his wife's apartment and the apartment of Yasir Hassan, who is also accused in the case.
Yasir was the former Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of RDC. He is now married to Moosa's sister.
Moosa has previously rejected allegations against both him and Yasir.
Police said this morning that they have seized electronic items from Moosa and Yasir's residences. Details of the items seized were not disclosed.
Central bank Maldives Monetary Authority's Financial Intelligence Unit notified the Police that suspicious funds had been deposited to Yasir's account, the total coming up to MVR 13 million. Police subsequently launched an investigation into this late last year.
On November 14 last year, three days before the end of the previous administraion, Police entered the RDC offices and took away relevant documents.
For this, Moosa had highly criticized then Commissioner of Police Mohamed Hameed. He alleged Police had entered RDC office to 'make headlines' and claimed that there was no corruption.
In March this year, Police said in a media briefing that of those accused of involvement in corruption in RDC, MVR 11 million had been deposited in one person's account, as discovered in their joint investigation with the Anti Corruption Commission.
They said that the case had been reported to them in September 2022, from which point technical work had been conducted in the case. They said that the investigations by then had indicated that many government employees had participated in this corruption.
The involvement of three persons had been confirmed by the investigation, Police's Economic Crime Department said.
They said then that MVR 14 million had been rolled through the accounts of these three. One had had MVR 11 million deposited to their account, while MVR 1 million had been deposited each to the other two's accounts.
The MVR 11 million had been rolled through the accounts of various companies and individuals. The money had been rolled from 2018 to September 2022, making up 216 transactions.
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