MDP claims it has received a dossier of evidence concerning money laundering and terrorist financing by PPM government officials

The Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) has revealed that it has received a report of a covert intelligence operation carried out within the Maldives and at various locations overseas.

In a statement released on Thursday, the MDP highlighted that the said investigation was carried out by an intelligence organization, and was based on direct interviews with current and former officials, and others associated with President Yameen’s regime. The party also claimed that the aim of the investigation was to uncover evidence of money laundering and terrorist financing directly and indirectly associated with the current regime. In addition to individual sources, the dossier reportedly contains photographs, financial transaction records, detailed email exchanges proving impropriety and financial instruments such as cheques.

According to the information the MDP has received, the most recent documents are a result of analyses conducted on material found on former Vice President Ahmed Adeeb’s personal laptops. These have yielded a number of highly incriminating emails implicating two companies based in Singapore, a major regulatory body in the Maldives, and a number of named individuals.

The information received makes apparently credible allegations concerning the expropriation of public funds by or on behalf of regime officials; the siphoning of public funds for unlawful surveillance of political opponents and other unlawful political purposes; the making of corrupt payments to members of the judiciary; and the making of corrupt payments to politicians, police officers, businessmen and those involved in organized crime.

 "At the same time, there has been a massive influx of unexplained funds, usually in cash, from unidentified sources in Saudi Arabia. Within the past 12 months it appears that sums totalling more that £500 million have been transferred in this way. To take just one example, £7 million in cash originating in the Gulf arrived in the Maldives by plane in the early part of 2015. The proceeds were unlawfully distributed as bribes among a group of officials associated with the regime that included politicians, judges, military figures, government officials and other public servants.", the statement read.

  The MDP raised concern over the allegations of a large number of individuals associated with regime, who come from all walks of public service (from the police and military, to the judiciary and senior politicians) appear to be working together in a single criminal conspiracy creating a haven for corruption, turning a nascent democracy into a industrial-scale kleptocracy.

The MDP further called upon the Maldives Police Service and the Maldives National Defence Force to immediately launch a credible investigation into these allegations.

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