The Parliamentary Committee on State Owned Enterprises has decided to summon four agencies in connection with fraudulent extortion scams.
The SOE Committee opened discussions on the report of the 19th Parliament's SOE Committee on the withdrawal of money from the bank accounts of customers of Bank of Maldives (BML) without their knowledge and identified additional issues related to the bank. The case to identify the progress and challenges faced by the relevant agencies based on the recommendations in the previous committee report was moved to the current SOE Committee by Parliamentarian Mohamed Ibrahim.
The committee members expressed interest in questioning BML about the policies of the bank, and Parliamentarian Ahmed Shakir moved to summon BML for further questioning. As such, the members proposed to look into the number of credit card cases and scam cases reported to the bank so far.
The members also proposed to bring in other relevant agencies for questioning. Hence, the Chairman of the committee, Parliamentarian Ibrahim Shujau moved to summon officials of the Maldives Monetary Authority (MMA), Maldives Police Service and the Maldives Correctional Service to the committee.