Ali Waheed

The police have said that Ali Waheed’s mother, Zuhra Abdullah of Honeymoon, Alif Alif Thoddoo, has exercised her right to remain silent when questioned by the police regarding the corruption case against Ali Waheed.

The police said that she was questioned at the Thoddoo Council Office by a visiting police investigation team.

Ali Waheed’s father, Mohamed Waheed of Bandharu, Haa Dhaalu Kulhudhuffushi, also exercised his right to remain silent when summoned to the police station regarding this case earlier.

Sun has come to know that the ACC and the police are investigating a case where Ali Waheed’s mother Zuhra purchased a house named M. Enzian in October 2011, which belongs to Ibrahim Shareef of M. Oceanic Villa. The land was purchased for an amount of MVR 7,938,000.

Ali Waheed’s mother had previously told Sun that she did purchased land in Male’ and that it was not purchased from money that she owned herself, but rather with money earned by Ali Waheed’s father by working on a cargo ship. Zuhra has also denied that the land was purchase with money given by Ali Waheed.

Despite this denial by Ali Waheed’s mother, some documents that were revealed earlier showed that the house was paid for by Tap Construction.

Apart from the land purchased by Ali Waheed’s mother, Ali Waheed and his wife have also purchased two pieces of land from Hulhumale’ through a bidding process. The price of such a piece of land in Hulhumale’ is MVR 4.6 million each. The land purchased by Ali Waheed’s wife however has been cancelled due to failure to make payments.