Criminal Court has ordered the Maldives Police Service to locate and present Hassan Mamdhooh (Manday), who is facing more than 100 fraud-related charges, after he failed to attend court hearings.
Manday’s fraud-related charges arise from the sale of apartments from K-Park Residences – a condominium under development in Hulhumale’.
The Prosecutor General’s Office filed criminal charges against Manday and his acquaintance Jaishan Saeed in December 2023, with Manday pressed with 104 charges and Jaishan pressed with 98 charges. The charges against them include money laundering, fraud, misappropriation, and providing counterfeit documents to individuals to defraud them.
Their trial began at the Criminal Court on July 30th last year.
A Criminal Court official told Sun on Friday that Manday failed to attend a hearing scheduled for Thursday in his trial. As such, the official said the Court had ordered the Police to find and present Manday before the Court.
In this regard, the Police has been instructed to present Manday to the Court before 14:00pm on Saturday.
The fraudulent sale of the K-Park apartments was submitted for police investigation by both Hanbo – the project’s developer - and Urbanco.
Manday and Jaishan are accused of doctoring documents by forging the signature of Hanbo’s majority shareholders, and opening an account in the company’s name with the Bank of Maldives (BML) despite the company already having opened its banking account with State Bank of India in order to defraud multiple clients.
The police found that 23 K-Park apartments were sold to over 50 people, with some of the apartments sold to as many as six people.
During the investigation into the case, the police raided an MVR 7.8 million penthouse apartment, which investigators believe was purchased by Manday by selling two apartments from K-Park Residences to four different buyers.
From the penthouse, the police found items worth around MVR 7 million, including 200 unopened perfume bottles, luxury bags, and jewelry.
 
Manday has categorically denied the allegations against him. He faces 40 years in prison if convicted of the charges.