Nazim provided 2 more months for medical treatment

Former Deputy Speaker and Dhiggaru representative of People’s Majlis, Ahmed Nazim, who has been convicted to 25 years in prison for graft, has been allowed two more months abroad for medical treatment.

One of Nazim’s family members spoke to “Sun” on Thursday and said that the current time period allowed for Nazim to stay abroad for medical treatment would end in January, and that Maldives Corrections Service had now allowed Nazim two more months for his medical treatment.

Nazim would now need to return back to prison by April 1.

Nazim spent over a month admitted in Indhira Gandhi Memorial Hospital before he was allowed to travel abroad for medical care.

Once a close ally of President Abdulla Yameen, Nazim was convicted in 2015 after the court found him guilty of using employees of Nameera Engineering Private Limited – a company which Nazim has a stake in – and submitting estimates under the name of four non-existent companies to win the bid issued by former Atolls Ministry on December 31, 2003 to buy 15,000 national flags needed by the ministry.