Six charges raised against former lawmaker Nihan

The Prosecutor General has pressed six charges against former Villimale' consituency MP Ahmed Nihan, in relation to the Maldives Marketing and Public Relations Corporation (MMPRC) corruption scandal.

Nihan’s case was investigated jointly by the Maldives Police Service (MPS), the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) and the Presidential Commission on Corruption and Asset Recovery before being forwarded for prosecution.

According to a press release by the Prosecutor General's Office on Tuesday, Ahmed Nihan has been found to have accepted bribes to influence his decisions as parliamentarian and the Chair of the National Budget Review Committee.

The statement specified that the investigation had revealed Nihan had continued to possess and use funds he had asked vormer Vice-President Ahmed Adeeb for as bribes while holding public office to fulfill his personal needs.

In addition to this, the press release also notes that none of these funds had been accounted for in the financial statements publicized by Nihan between 2014 and 2019, and requested that the court reclaim that money and the assets he amassed using those funds.

The details of the charges being levelled against Ahmed Nihan are as follows.