The Prosecutor General’s Office PGO has pressed 6 charges against former MP for Villimale’s constituency Ahmed Nihan in relation to the MMPRC corruption scandal.
PGO had forwarded the graft related charges pressed against Nihan to the criminal court and this includes one count of money laundering and five counts of bribery.
PGO filed the charges after investigating claims that the ex-MP had used the funds obtained illegally from one of the largest corruption scandals ever uncovered in the Maldives.
These claims have been investigated by the Police, the Anti-corruption Commission ACC, and the Corruption and Asset Recovery Commission.
In a statement, PGO said during his time as the MP for villimale' and as the chair of the Parliament Public Accounts Committee, he had taken bribes from former Vice President Ahmed Adeeb in order to perform his duties in a certain manner.
It also said that the investigation had found that Nihan had used the illegally obtained funds and had failed to disclose these funds in his financial statements given between 2014 to 2019.
The PGO has requested the court to recover the illegally obtained funds as well as other assets that are involved in these transactions.
Labeled as the biggest scandal the country is yet to uncover, initial investigations revealed that the corruption and the beneficiaries of the corruption were widespread plaguing the political world along with the security agencies and civil services.
