PG to make decision on charging Azima Shakoor next week

Prosecutor General Aishath Bisham has said that she will make a decision on whether to charge former legal affairs minister Azima Shakoor next week.

The PG’s office has already charged former President Abdulla Yameen with money-laundering and giving false information to state authorities.

While Yameen’s case has been submitted to the Criminal Court, PG Bisham said they are still evaluating Azima’s case. The police service has requested that she be charged with giving false information to state authorities and aiding Yameen with money-laundering.

The PG said that they will be tried separately.

Azima and Yameen will be tried seperately

After filing the case at the PG’s office, the police service stated that Yameen is implicated in illegal financial transactions when he was president, which includes leasing islands via Maldives Marketing and PR Corporation (MMPRC).

The money owed to the state from these transactions were allegedly transferred to Yameen’s account at the Maldives Islamic Bank, which were then laundered, the police stated, adding that Yameen had also given false information to the authorities during the investigation.

Instead of returning the money to the state, Yameen has used it for personal benefit, the police state, and over MVR 100 million in his bank accounts have been frozen.

Yameen has said that the money in his account were earned by legal means.