The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has sent a case to the Prosecutor General to charge former Acting Home Minister Ameen Faisal for his role in setting free a Maldivian man sentenced to life by a Sri Lankan court for drug smuggling.
The ACC in a statement said that a man – identified as Ibrahim Adam Manik of Gomashige in Mahchangolhi, Male’, son of Male’ City Councillor ‘Sarangu’ Adam Manik – was sentenced to life by the High Court of Sri Lanka in Negombo and brought to Male’ on March 29, 2009.
According to the ACC, the Sri Lankan Ministry of Justice and Law Reform agreed to send him back after the Maldivian Home Ministry gave assurances that his sentence would be implemented in a Maldivian prison.
The ACC said that their investigation had found out the letter from Maldivian Home Ministry was sent by the then Acting Home Minister Ameen Faisal – a senior member of Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) who had filled a number of senior government portfolios.
In the letter, Faisal had agreed that the Maldivian Home Ministry would take responsibility for implementing Ibrahim Adam Manik’s sentence.
The ACC said that the prisoner was brought to the Maldives before asking for legal advice from the then-Attorney General, and that the then-Acting Home Minister had not clarified whether there was a legal procedure whereby Maldivian prisoners abroad could be transferred to the Maldives to complete their sentence.
On February 12, 2008, the Maldives and Sri Lanka signed an agreement to transfer prisoners, although the two countries have not exchanged documents regarding the implementation of the agreement and have no legal procedure on how to transfer the prisoners, the ACC said.
Moreover, the ACC said that Ibrahim Adam Manik was brought to the Maldives a few days after the Sri Lankan High Court had sentenced him to life whilst there were many other Maldivians serving life sentences at foreign prisons.
The ACC concluded that this action in the case constituted abuse of public power for private benefit, which is considered a crime under the Anti-Corruption Act’s article 12(a).
When contacted for a comment regarding the matter, Faisal told Minivan News he said he was busy and asked to be contacted later. He was not responding to further calls at the time of press.
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Too busy?
Sounds like a dud dumbo.
The impression that I get, is that Maldivian society is mortally wounded by this need to patronize evil to achieve nearly anything positive at all. Who can take the moral, or legal high ground with any honesty? Who is not also guilty of what Mr. Faisal is guilty of? Certainly nobody the general Public would have ever heard of, that's for sure.
The deep social and moral cynicism this sense of - moral impotence creates has eaten away the Maldivian social fabric -it has alienated the hearts of many. Resentment, despair, narcissism, radicalism and amorality often seek to fill the social-emptiness which remains, but they only serve to deepen these wounds of cynicism and alienation.
But, I do see hope. When large families in Male' get together and love one another for support of a newborn baby and the Mother, you really see the love you thought was gone from Male.' GREAT love - and therefore, great HOPE. When Maldivians living abroad from different political spectrums get together as one, and love one another, I see hope for the Maldives.
I am not sure exactly how it is to all be worked out, but my feeling is that, there has to be some sort of forgiveness for things to start afresh. Some sort of commitment to attack policy - but not character, to agree to disagree, a renewed sense of service to the whole nation and not just to the self. But, for all this to work in actual reality, social services must be provided which are provided without the need to serve another individual.
Some sort of a reconciliation movement has to happen.
This is fine since this is done by MDP hardliner and the fact this is guy is the son of Saragu Adam Maiku.
MDP people will not do anything wrong .
I had a relative high regard for this guys Amin Didi, but this guy non what.
Ps: this playwright fellow thinks running a country is like running a hippie club