A Sri Lankan national has appealed to the Criminal Court to release his passport, which has been held for over a year in relation to a case concerning the discovery of hundreds of bottles of cheap alcohol in a car belonging to Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) Parliamentary Group leader ‘Reeko’ Moosa Manik.
The Court identified the expat as Muhaidhee Mohamed. Following his complaint the Court summoned the police investigator in charge of the case, Staff Sergeant Ali Faiz, who told the court the matter would be resent to the Prosecutor General this week.
Faiz told the Criminal Court that the leader of a group of expats involved in importing alcohol illegally to the Maldives had fled during the police investigation.
‘’We would like to note that it has been one year, two months and 10 days from the day he was arrested,’’ said the Criminal Court. ‘’He was released by the Criminal Court after he was kept in detention for two months.”
In February last year police arrested four expatriate men loading 168 bottles of whiskey and menthol gin into a car registered to Moosa, on the same day controversial liquor licensing regulations were unveiled by the Ministry of Economic Development.
Main opposition Dhivehi Rayyithunge Party Vice President Ibrahim Shareef then said he doubted the case “would go very far”, noting that “in the worst case scenario Reeko’s driver will be implicated and that will be the end of the story.”
The investigation into the case was concluded in October last year, and the case was sent to the Prosecutor General who rejected it and sent it back to police.
Police then said that the case was rejected because there was some necessary information was missing in the investigation.
Local media reported that during the court hearing during the investigation police told the judge that the main subject of the investigation was a person known only as ‘Tin Tin’.
Moosa, who was in Singapore at the time of the incident, has maintained that his driver was bribed and the bottles were planted in his car to attack him politically.
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The main suspect in this Case was Tin Tin ? Who else was involved ? Captain Haddock and Professor Calculus ? This is ridiculous....
with the amount of whiskey involved it was prob haddock!!
TinTin and the Mysterious Case of the Booze Smuggling Driver.
Blistering barnacles!
It surely must be Tin Tin!
Captain Haddock would never ever send down even a drop of whiskey down his throat! No way!
Where are the detectives, Thompson and Thomson when you need them? Surely, The Maldivian Police cannot be more incompetent than these two?
The real crime here is to have such ineffective Prosecutors and police that they cant come up with some evidence or conclusions in A YEAR!!!
Clearly this is a political sensitive case who is "taken into the shadows to be forgotten".
So how long will the case take before someone pulls their finger out of their a..hole and start working for once??
Toy police and circus prosecutors run by incompetent politicians is what it is - totally.
How hard can it be!!??
Have it been a ordinary person, he/she would already be in jail.
Klyfer, yes spot on man, im not accusing reeko of anything, he may be innocent or guilty, but if this was an ordinary person (by that i mean no political or gang ties) we would be in a cell now