The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has participated in Global Conference on Anti-Corruption Reform in Small Island States organized by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The Conference was held in Mauritius from 02nd to 04th August 2016 and ACC was represented in the Conference by the Chairman of the Commission, Mr. Hassan Luthfee. [Read More…]

Based on the cases concluded by the Commission during first three months, the 6 cases forwarded to Prosecutor General’s Office carried a total of 10 different charges. The highest numbers of charges were on undue advantage for a third party. Likewise, 5 charges on providing undue advantage were sent for prosecution and it was observed [Read More…]

ACC has concluded its investigation of a complaint alleging that the officials of Ministry of Energy and Environment had abused its functions for the purpose of unduly benefiting a bidder during the evaluation of the bids submitted to the Ministry following the invitation for bids for the establishment of water and sewerage systems in 5 [Read More…]

The Anti-Corruption Commission has reviewed the procedure stipulated for the selection of parties to run governmental projects under the 11th amendment brought to the Public Financial Regulation and forwarded its concerns to the relevant authorities. The 11th amendment incorporated subsection (c) and (d) to Section 8.15 of the regulation. The amendment facilitates the performance of [Read More…]

ACC has forwarded its proposed amendments to Law number 13/2008 (Anti-Corruption Commission Act) to the Attorney General’s Office on 23rd June 2016. The 68 amendments proposed to the Act entail the experiences and challenges faced by the Commission in the exercise of its investigative functions, and the recent developments in the criminal justice system of [Read More…]

Anti-Corruption Commission concluded a total of 213 cases in the first quarter of 2016. That is 166 cases that were concluded after the evaluation process of preliminary stage and 47 cases that were concluded after investigation process. During the same period in 2015, a total of 216 cases were concluded respectively. From the cases concluded, [Read More…]

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has participated in the 7th session of United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC) Implementation Group held in Vienna, Austria from 20-24 June 2016. The official representative of ACC was Vice-Chairman, Uz. Muaviz Rasheed. The session was aimed at discussing the efforts undertaken by the group to prevent corruption, and tackling the [Read More…]

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has participated in a workshop held at Vienna, Austria based on “Protection of Reporting Person”. The official representative of ACC was Vice-Chairman, Uz. Muaviz Rasheed. The workshop organized by UNOCD from 16th June to 17th June 2016 was mainly focused on less developing countries. The workshop is aimed at discussing about [Read More…]

A MOU has been signed between Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) and Maldives Hajj Corporation Limited (MHCL) on 7th June 2016 at ACC. The purpose of the MOU was to facilitate the ACCs staff to join and avail the benefits of the employee’s scheme of the Hajj Corporation. The scheme will help employees to retain an allocated [Read More…]

The first ever event held by the Social Responsibility Movement (AAROA) of independent institutions of Maldives was held on 4 May 2016 in Hulhumale’ Phase II. The event was organized by Independent Institutions of Maldives in corporation with Housing Development Corporation (HDC) and Pension Administration Office (PAO) as associate partners. The event was financially backed [Read More…]