Police and the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) have made an agreement to investigate a Road Development Corporation (RDC) case filed a year and a half ago in September 2022.
At a press conference on Sunday, Chief Superintendent Ahmed Nafiz, acting head of the Crime Investigation Command, said he could not name any suspects despite the “involvement of many government employees.”
Money transfers from the RDC account to the personal accounts of employees were known to have occurred but the nature of the transactions remains unclear, police said.
"What has been noted so far is that RDC used money in violation of how state funds should be rolled or against even the most basic standards for using state funds," Nafiz said.
Police found 216 transactions from the RDC account to the account of one employee. An investigation was underway into these transactions, police said.
Searches were conducted in November 2023 as part of the investigation, police said, stressing the difficulty of such investigations.
Suspects have not been questioned so far and police could not say whether there was enough evidence to prove wrongdoing at court, Superintendent Abdulla Rasheed, head of the Economic Crime Department, said at the press briefing.
"We will build the case when we get the case," he said.
According to the police, the case involves funds transferred to three employees and transactions worth MVR 14 million have been flagged so far. No further details were provided.
"It's difficult for us to say that we have got evidence enough to charge any of these people yet," Nafiz said.
