Joint Parliament Committee votes to publicize list of MMPRC corruption suspects

The joint parliament committee on National Security Services and the Judiciary Committee has voted on Wednesday to publicize a list of suspects in the Maldives Marketing and Public Relations Corporation (MMPRC) grand corruption case.

All members present at the committee voted unanimously in favor of publicizing the list, as it was submitted to the committee by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) following their investigation into the case.

At the meeting of the joint parliament committee on Wednesday, a report submitted on the list by the sub-committee had been reviewed. In submitting the report, Chair for the sub-committee and MP for North-Maafannu constituency Imthiyaz Fahmy stated that the committee would be working in stages, and that following the conclusion of each stage, a report would be read on how the committee's work had progressed during that period.

The sub-committee had reviewed a list submitted to them by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), thee Maldives Police Service and the Asset Recovery Commission, based on top-level leaders suspected in the MMPRC grand corruption case. In the report submitted by the sub-committee, it was recommended that the list of suspects be made public as is, with a separate list compiled of current government leaders who had been involved in the MMPRC corruption case.

The committee is now reviewing instances where those on the MMPRC list are also serving as members of President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih's government. MP Imthiyaz Fahmy had revealed that including those currently working in national security and policing, at independence institutions, the judiciary, parliament and the cabinet of ministers, a total of 119 parties had been named in the MMPRC list from the incumbent administration.