Superintendent of Police Mohamed Riyaz has told parliament’s Government Oversight Committee that police have received reports that the Head of Maleesha Hajj Group, Ismail Abdul Latheef is in Malaysia.
Police began searching for 42 year-old in late September after it was alleged that he had defrauded 175 people of MVR 12 million (US$778,000) after they made payments to the Maleesha Hajj Group to travel to Mecca to perform Hajj.
Riyaz said police were trying to verify the information concerning Latheef’s whereabouts.
Officials from the Ministry of Islamic Affairs and police were summoned by parliament’s Government Oversight Committee to determine the progress they had made in locating Latheef, and the missing money.
Latheef was reported to police after people who had made the Hajj payment realised that the group’s office had been closed for days without any response.
On October 2, Interpol issued a red notice to locate and apprehend Latheef.
Attending the Hajj is one of the five pillars of Islam. Clients of the company were not able to go to Mecca this year to perform the religious obligation.
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WOW - what an honourable servant of allah. may he have 1000000 virgins here in earth.
In his group there are some more members as, Fantacy, Saeed,Hiyalee,also one of the Yameen, they are having a cheap medical stock stored in Aifaanu Building 10th fl.During Adam Zahirus time this man was in fraud,Adan Zaahiru was helping him.
Yes who is he, a nobody with no history or family loan.
A anonymous nobody???
Why is the media silent on these and inter relate cases.
Head of Maleesha Hajj Group, Ismail Abdul Latheef is the son of FAMOUS Athama Abdul Latheef of Athamaa Hajj Group.
The whole Athamaa Fimily is bankrupt, Banks have file cases in courts to take over their assets. They owe some USD200 million to SBI and Mauritius Bank
Saw this guy clearing Sri Lanka Immigration on 13 SEP. Why couldn't the immigration in Maldives stop him when departing Male??
his family is living lavishly in Colombo.
Probably, the reason why this man did not facilitate his clients to go to Mecca this year was, because he realized that it was a pagan practice.
Doing Tawaf between Safa and Marwa is an Islamic ritual associated with the pilgrimage to Mecca. Safa and Marwa are two mounts, located at Mecca. This ritual entails Muslims walking frantically between the two mounts, seven times. This was originally a pagan pre-Islamic practice. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) retained it for Islam, sanctioning it with yet another Qur'anic revelation.
Worship at the Ka’aba and the kissing of the Black Stone are just the first of many practices adopted from 7th century paganism and repackaged within monotheistic Islam.
Egyptian Professor and foremost authority on Arabic literature, Dr. Taha Husayn, said the following:
The case for this episode is very obvious because it is of recent date and came into vogue just before the rise of Islam. Islam exploited it for religious reasons.
Worship at the Ka’aba and the kissing of the Black Stone are just the first of many practices adopted from 7th century paganism and repackaged within monotheistic Islam.
I believe that now it has dawned on Mr Ismail Abdul Latheef, that it is not worthy to encourage people to indulge in pagan practices. But he has to come out of the closet, and refund the money he had collected from his clients!