Ali Hameed's corruption case still stalled at Criminal Court

It has been over three years since the corruption case against Supreme Court Judge Ali Hameed was sent to the Criminal Court.

While Ali Hameed has been accused of corruption over the unlawful transfer of credit from his state-funded mobile phone, Prosecutor General’s (PG) Office forwarded the case to the Criminal Court in April 2014. The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) had forwarded the case to the PG Office in 2013.

According to the ACC, investigations revealed that Ali Hameed has used a number issued to the Supreme Court by the State ‘for personal purposes’. It said that he had used the said number to transfer MVR 2,223 to other numbers between December 2010 and April 2011.

The issue was first noted in the 2010 audit report of the Judicial Administration Department. The report said that the judge had repaid the amount, after being informed of the issue.

The case has been stalled since 2014, with the criminal court asking prosecutors to resend all the files related to Hameed’s case, saying that the case documents were ‘destroyed in a coffee spill’. The PG office had asked the court to show the documents that had been destroyed.

The court is yet to reveal a reason why the case has been stalled, and RaajjeMV was unable to get a comment on the matter.

In 2014 videos featuring a man that appears to be the supreme court Judge was leaked online, where he is seen to be having sex with three foreign women in a hotel room in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

While fornication outside marriage is a criminal offence in the Maldives, the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) investigated the case twice, and cleared him off the charges of misconduct.

JSC said that they did not have ‘enough evidence’ to prosecute Hameed. He is currently the President of the Judicial Service Commission.