Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has said that the responsibility for the negligence of the Maldives Monetary Authority (MMA) in the corruption scandal of Maldives Marketing and Public Relations Corporation (MMPRC) falls on then, Head of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of the MMA, Athif Shukoor.

ACC made the statement in the report released today after investigating why the FIU did not send the inconsistencies after analyzing the STR that could be suspected for embezzlement, for further investigation.

ACC said that the Bank of Maldives (BML) sent a STR on 27 November 2014 regarding the private company that is received the embezzled money from the MMPRC to the FIU and the analysis report prepared by the FIU on 31 December 2014 suspected transactions for money laundering.

The ACC report said that they would be filing with the Maldives Police Service to investigated the things noted in the report.