Police summon Ali Waheed

The police have summoned Thoddoo MP Ali Waheed’s father for questioning tomorrow night, regarding a corruption case concerning Ali Waheed.

A police media official told Sun Online that Ali Waheed’s father, Mohamed Waheed of Bandharu, Haa Dhaalu Kulhudhuffushi, had been summoned to the police station at 21:00 tomorrow regarding a corruption case being investigated by the police in collaboration with the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).

The purpose of summoning Mohamed Waheed was to clarify information regarding the case, said the police.

Sun has come to know that the ACC and the police are investigating a case where Ali Waheed’s mother Zuhra purchased a house named M. Enzian in October 2011, which belongs to Ibrahim Shareef of M. Oceanic Villa. The land was purchased for an amount of MVR 7,938,000.

Ali Waheed’s mother had previously told Sun that she did purchased land in Male’ and that it was not purchased from money that she owned herself, but rather with money earned by Ali Waheed’s father by working on a cargo ship. Zuhra has also denied that the land was purchase with money given by Ali Waheed.

Despite this denial by Ali Waheed’s mother, some documents that were revealed earlier showed that the house was paid for by Tap Construction.

Apart from the land purchased by Ali Waheed’s mother, Ali Waheed and his wife have also purchased two pieces of land from Hulhumale’ through a bidding process. The price of such a piece of land in Hulhumale’ is MVR 4.6 million each. The land purchased by Ali Waheed’s wife however has been cancelled due to failure to make payments.