5 April 2010. The Prosecutor General’s office has returned cases against former government ministers forwarded several weeks ago by former Auditor General Ibrahim Naeem. Deputy Prosecutor General Hussain Shameem said the cases was returned to the Auditor General’s Office “because they were not investigated sufficiently.” Shameem said they should have been “properly investigated” by the Auditor General’s Office before being sent to the PG’s Office. Press Secretary for the President’s Office Mohamed Zuhair said the former Auditor General “did not make up this case on his own or without collecting information. He would have sent these cases to the PG after working with a team.” Zuhair said parliament’s no-confidence decision on Naeem did not mean that the whole Audit office was corrupt.
