ACC files police complaint over reported state doc tempering
ACC filed the investigation with police after the FSM video went viral on social media.
By
Aishath Fareeha Abdulla
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has brought to the attention of the police the alleged destruction and alteration of state documents during the transitional period.
The ACC has been receiving complaints of destruction of documents of some state agencies and government companies during the transitional period, it said in a statement on Monday.
The ACC said it had noticed such incidents as well.
The ACC issued a press release on Monday saying that altering state documents, destroying them and hiding such documents would hamper the investigations conducted by the commission.
The ACC has ordered such practices to be stopped. If any member of the public has any information about such an act, the commission implores to share it with them.
The ACC has brought the matter to the attention of the police as it is an offence under the laws to alter, destroy or hide documents.
The ACC has also asked the Privatisation and Corporatisation Board (PCB) to stop such actions by government agencies and state-owned enterprises.
A video of Fuel Supply Maldives (FSM) employees destroying documents of the company in a concrete mixer had gone viral on social media, and the ACC has finally flagged an investigation into it.
When contacted, FSM said the documents they destroyed were old, stored away for a long time and not required anymore.
