President Mohamed Nasheed on Saturday has established a 5 member presidential commission to investigate alleged embezzlement of state funds and properties by certain individuals.
President’s Office said as serious embezzlement of state funds have been reported by concerned authorities, the President formed the commission under the powers granted to him under Article 115(P) of the constitution to investigate and take urgent steps to recover the embezzled funds.
Ali Shiyam, Economic Advisor to the President was appointed as the President of the Commission. Other members include Minister of State, Principal Collector of Customs Mohamed Aswan, Idham Muiz Adnan, Abdulla Haseen and Shabab Rasheed.
The commission was formed as an independent commission with full legal powers to investigate the embezzlement cases. The commission is also empowered to summon any person and take statements which may be used as evidences, instruct the Police to arrest any person under investigation by the commission attempting to leave the country or withhold the passport of such a person.
Further, the commission also has the power to demand and collect any document that has bearing on a case under investigation from any government ministry or from any institution and submit the collected evidences and information to Maldives Police Services and Anti Corruption Committee for necessary action.
Auditor General Ibrahim Naeem during his recent audits on various government ministries and departments has raised serious issues on embezzlement and misappropriation of state funds by officials of various ranks.
President Mohamed Nasheed in a message published on occasion of Fishermen’s Day has expressed that cases involving misappropriation of public money must be looked into and such money must be recovered. More recently while speaking to the people of Kolufushi on Monday 27 April the president has said misappropriation of state funds will be taken very seriously. He warned that legal action will be taken against anyone found guilty of misappropriation.
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