Maldives Police Service has said that some of the MVR 2.4 million scammed out of people have been deposited into some prison officers' accounts.

Speaking at a press conference held at Iskandar Koshi on Thursday, Head of Anti-Scam Centre, Inspector of Police Mariam Rashida said that in February a man was scammed out of MVR 587,000 while another man had a total of 1.9 million scammed from his personal and company accounts under the guise of business. Police are investigating the cases.

During the investigation of both the cases, Maafushi prison was raided and mobile phones and related equipment were recovered.

Addressing a press conference, Inspector of Police Sham Mohammad, Head of Scam Investigation at the Anti-Scam Centre, said that money had gone to prison officers in both the cases.

"The case is under investigation and hence we will not go into the details of the case. However, investigations in both the cases have revealed that money has gone to some people," Sham said.

Sham added that note books were also recovered from the cells raided from the prison which had account numbers and how the money would be sent.