Criminal Court has scheduled the sentencing hearing in the trial against former Vice President Ahmed Adeeb for later this evening.
Identified as a key suspect in the MMPRC scandal, the state has charged the former VP with two counts of embezzlement, unlawful influence to obtain an unfair advantage, and misuse of his official capacity as well as two counts of money laundering.
The ex-VP had pleaded guilty to the charges filed against him at the preliminary hearing of the case held on the 30th of this month.
At that hearing, he had said that that he had already spent five years in jail in relation to these charges and that he now regrets all the bad decisions he has made.
Adeeb said he has now repented for the crimes he had committed in the past and that he begs forgiveness from the state and its nation for all the wrong he had done by misusing the power and authority he once had.
It is being reported that the former VP and the state had agreed to a 20-year jail term and a fine of MVR 2 million for his part in the country’s biggest-ever scam.
