Sunday, July 25, 2010

Corruption in the Open.......

Just few weeks ago I received a call from a relatively new company who calls them selves "ZEBRA CROSS'. They asked for an appointment and as we always encourage new businesses, we gave them an appointment.

They cam in right on time for the appointment, They were well informed about their product and the ideas were brilliant. Thee product that they were trying to market was 3 versions of Yellow Pages. A print version, online version and a mobile application.

There marketing materials were designed with care and a lot of professionalism expect for a large number of typo errors. They had three separate brochures for their 3 products and on one of them, the print version of the yellow pages and on pages 2 and 3 I noticed something unusual.

Well, the company is owned by Mr. Mohamed Luveiz, Mr. Abdulla Ziyath and Mr. Ibrahim Mohamed Didi.

The Profile says that Mr. Mohamed Luveiz and Mr. Abdulla Ziyath both hold positions at Invest maldives where Mr. Luveiz is the Head and Mr. Ziyath is the Assitant Director.

Strangely, Zebra Cross pvt. Ltd, owned by these two gentleman has been awarded numerous contracts by Invest Maldives. Including: Authentic Maldives branding campaign, IPA strategy, Marketing plan, copywriting and even the website www.investmaldives.org website.

This profile is enough proof that they abused their positions and they are constantly doing that by by using this profile to market their private business.

So what is ACC doing about this.


Wednesday, July 21, 2010

STO back dating Board Resolutions to fool Anti-Corruption Commission

We have received confirmed news that STO board members were back dating board resolutions to avoid charges against corruption. ACC has moved in couple months ago and when asked for board resolutions they have in fact back dated these resolutions with instructions from both Shahid and Soarey.

If ACC is doing their job properly ACC needs to investigate these resolutions and hold the board members who are responsible accountable. Back dating resolutions should be considered as fraud and due process needs to be followed and justice served.

These are serious issues and corruption needs to be wiped out from this country once and for all.