Police have charged former chief judge of the Criminal Court Ahmed Hailam for a money-laundering offense and have summoned the former judge for questioning.
Police sent a notice addressed to the former judge and summoned him to the police headquarters on Tuesday at 8 pm.
In the notice, police said that the Financial Intelligence Unit of MMA as per the Regulation For Banks On Prevention Of Money Laundering And Financing Of Terrorism has flagged the exchange of MVR 200,000 between former MP Alhan Fahmy and Criminal Court Chief Judge Ahmed Hailam as a money-laundering offense.
The former MP had agreed that he had lent Hailam the money and that he lent the money as a loan to the former judge.
In a tweet, Hailam had said that he had borrowed MVR 200,000 from his friend and had completed the transaction in a transparent manner from one account to another.
He added that he had been accused of money laundering for this transaction but he cannot be threatened in this manner.
