Corruption case against former Minister Ameen Faisal sent to PG

A case has been forwarded to the Prosecutor General’s Office (PG) against former Cabinet Minister Ameen Faisal for using the influence of position to attain undue advantage in extraditing a Maldivian prisoner from Sri Lanka to Maldives.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) released a statement today which said that Ameen Faisal’s case involves the extradition of Ibrahim Adam Manik, son of Male’ City Council Member Sarangu Adam Manik, from a prison in Sri Lanka to Maldives. The extradition was facilitated by documents of assurances provided by the Maldives Ministry of Home Affairs that Ibrahim Adam Manik was continue to serve the remainder of his prison sentence in the Maldives, the statement said.

Ibrahim Adam Manik was convicted for trafficking drugs and sentenced to a lifetime in prison in Sri Lanka on 26 March 2006 and extradited to the Maldives on 29 May 2009. Ameen Faisal at the time, was Acting Minister of Home Affairs.

ACC said the Home Ministry had requested the council of the Attorney General after Ibrahim Adam Manik was transferred to the Maldives.

The ACC statement said that although a Sri Lanka-Maldives prisoner exchange agreement was signed on 12 February 2008, the documents required for the agreement to take force were not exchanged between the two counties.

The ACC accuses former Minister Ameen Faisal of having used the influence of his office to grant undue advantages to Ibrahim Adam Manik, in his unlawful extradition from Sri Lanka to Maldives in May 2009.