The four people, two of them business magnates, accused by police of being the ringleaders behind the theft of two containers of smuggled cigarettes from the Hulhumale’ port, have been remanded in custody of the police.
The two containers containing 13.6 million sticks of cigarettes smuggled into the Maldives were seized by Maldives Customs Service on April 26, and kept at the seaport in Hulhumale’, a facility managed by the Maldives Ports Limited (MPL). The theft of the cigarettes was discovered on October 9.
On Tuesday night, the police arrested four people believed to be ringleaders behind the heist; a high-ranking Customs official, a former Customs official, and two business magnates – Ahmed Arif (Aattey), the owner of Lotus, and Mohamed Waheed (Dhigali), the owner of Apollo Holdings.
All four were brought before a judge at the Criminal Court for their remand hearing on Wednesday.
A police spokesperson told Sun that the court ordered for Arif to be remanded in custody of the police for 15 days, and Waheed for 10 days.
To be updated…
13M cigarette heist: Aattey remanded for 15 days, Dhigali for 10
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