A voice clip of a conversation has between Special Envoy to the President Ibrahim Zaki and a person named Anandhu, purportedly in the UK, has been leaked to the local media, concerning negotiations for the delivery of T-Shirts for the Maldivian Democratic Party ahead of the Presidential election.
In the voice clip that first appeared on the website of local radio station SunFM, Zaki and Anandhu speak about payment for the T-shirts ahead of the 2008 presidential elections.
The General Elections Act article number 70 states that “products or money” given by foreigners shall not be used by a Presidential Candidate or any person on behalf of a Presidential Candidate, and article 70[a] states that ”Products or money given by foreigners, foreign parties or foreign administrations shall not be used.”
Zaki told Minivan News that he had provided ”many T-shirts” to the Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP).
”No foreign party has directly contributed the MDP, it all came to me and from the things I received I gave things that I felt like giving to MDP,” he said. ”The General Election Act prohibits political parties accepting offers from foreign parties.”
Elections Commissioner Fuad Thaufeeq did not respond to Minivan News at time of press, while Vice Commissioner’s phone was switched off.
Director General of the Elections Commission Mohamed Tholal said he was out of the country and was unable to comment.
The leaked conversation:
Anandhu: Yes, Zaki. On the 1st I will make the transfer. Now, I understand from you, from the email I got also, that I got to do it directly to Elements (?) Garment.
Zaki: Yes, because that makes things very easy for us. That means by wire transfer.
A: Ok, no problem. The rest, I mean you can count me. On the 1st it will be done by wire transfer, ok? And I will then send you an email on the 1st itself to say it’s done and chase it up with Elements Garments to make sure everything goes according to plan. But if I do it on the 1st, say we receive the funds on the 2nd, I mean, do you know the company very well? Does Mausoom know the company very well?
Z: Mausoom knows very well.
A: OK, tell Mausoom to tell then that the funds are coming. Prepare everything and as soon as they receive the funds they can just send it. Because what my fear is that by the time it comes to Male’ – I don’t know how long it will take.
Z: I think it will not take more than about five, six days.
A: Five, six days, ok. As of today, when do you envisage the date of the election will be? It will be around the 11th of September?
Z: Well, you know, the original contemplation of the government was to have the first round on the 20th of September and to have the second round on the 4th of October.
A: Then we have enough time. Because what my worry was, I didn’t want the t-shirts to get to you too late.
Z: Yeah, and in the meantime, an EU delegation came here a couple of days ago.
A: Yes, yes.
Z: And they met us and they said they’ve been talking to Gayoom also and talking to us. And they said their idea is that the 1st of September to the 30th is the month of Ramazan, the fasting month. So their suggestion is why don’t we have the first round on the 4th of October and the second round after two weeks.
A: It makes sense. I don’t know how you feel, but it makes sense. It gives you a bit more time to prepare.
Z: No, our reply was very simple. We cannot agree that the current regime can be extended more than the 11th of November.
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This is no surprise. Its an open secret that MDP is Bankrolled by conservative party of UK. Why else would the idiot in chief go and speak at their annual congress. New regime same as old regime only louder uneducated and idiotic
Ho-hum! The MDP is funded by a Western initiative....MY GOD!!! Is Libya also being manipulated by this mysterious "west"?....and....and...wait!!!! Are we slaves to the IMF, the UN, the US and the UK.
Glory be. Such revelations can only come from Minivan - Independent News for the Maldives (ROFL).
Oh ... This is no secret
I wonder who leaked this? very very shocking.
So what?
there's a difference between being 'given' and buying. this is a purchase. what's so shocking about this? we buy all our clothes anyway :S ppl will make drama out of anything, get a life!
what ever happens, will be surely justified in the eyes of law by the administration in power - no one can do anythings. People like zaki is a parasite. He did to gay moon and now to anni, and also he will do it again. I am sure this is purposely "leaked". WE people have to sit and comments to things like this. change the constitution - president for life. thats better. another golhabo!.
This is serious...we the Maldivians citizens have a right to know who pays our president and the executive...We cant accept our executive being a slave to anyone..We have a right to know whose bankrolling the MDP>
Hold mid-term elections now!
buying T-shirts from foreigners is nothing compared to stealing well over 8 million US dollars worth of oil from the Maldivian people. That is, oil which is given at a cheap rate to the people of the Maldives because you are Muslims. This oil is meant to be distributed in a manner which profits the common Maldivian. It is something given in the Sacred spirit of Muslim brotherhood. Yet is sold by Yameen who profits from it, using that money and power to drive fear into Maldivians. Come to think of it, the depth of evil involved in Yameen's deal is only now starting to dawn on me, because it is another example of brutally exploiting sacred Islamic Brotherhood for profit.
i just realized I said yameen stole 8 million but the figure is hundreds of millions! Now, if Yameen was a man of charity, a benevolent man, would be fantstic deal. The problem is, he is a man of cruelty, selfishness, vanity and arrogance. Come to think of it, he has so much hate I suspect he must have a stomach complaint, as such hatred is abnormal and psychotic