It has been revealed that the Maldives Customs Service provided inaccurate information to the parliament committee on security services (241 committee).
The committee, on Tuesday, began debating the report on the smuggling of 200 cartons of cigarettes last year.
Dhiggaru MP Ahmed Nazim, who led the committee in drafting the report, said the Customs initially shared inaccurate information.
"I just want to point out that the information given to this committee by Customs at first was inaccurate. There are problems with the timeline constructed and sent by Customs," said Nazim, who also serves as the deputy speaker.
He added that Customs was asked to improve the timeline and the new timeline was formulated under the direct supervision of the Commissioner General of Customs.
The committee report includes the newly formulated, accurate timeline.
It is an offence to provide false information to the parliament or a parliamentary committee. It is unclear what action will be taken against those responsible.
