The company that printed the ballot papers for the Presidential Election held on the 23rd of September, M7 Print Private Limited has on Sunday filed a police complaint following threats to burn the company offices down.
RaajjeMV understands that they had received the arson threat following the police complaints they lodged earlier on Thursday following requests employees received to give false statements regarding the ballot papers.
Following these threats, the company had reinforced their security at company premises.
M7’s Managing Director Mohamed Abdul Sattar stated that ruling Progressive Party of the Maldives (PPM) members have been trying to bribe employees at the company last week. As such, some employees were offered hefty sums of money to give false testimonies against their company. Employees had also been threatened when they revealed this to their seniors.
President Yameen had earlier in October filed a constitutional case at the Supreme Court regarding the Presidential ballots held on the 23rd of September, and of the issues noted in the case was the issue of the fraudulent ballot papers.
Giving full assurance that there were no issues with the ballot papers printed by his company, Sattar stated that they do not carry out illegal practices and that no matter how much they are threatened, there is nothing the ruling party has against them.
Reports surfaced during the Presidential Election, that M7 had used a certain chemical while printing out the ballot papers, that will erase all marks. Sattar, who was quick to refute these allegations, said that he doubts that the Elections Commission will do anything to the ballot papers in such a short time before the election.
