Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM) has gone to the police claiming that some important party documents and computers were missing from the old party office at Thema house in Henveiru ward.
PPM Spokesperson Ali Arif said that when party members entered the old PPM main office with the aid of the police, after failed attempts to follow the court order regarding all the documents, equipment and office to be turned over to the party's chief adviser President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom, they found all the important PPM documents missing and that some computers were missing and the computers that were left either had the hard drives removed or wiped.
"We tried to follow the court order, but we saw no way to do it. We were forced to enter the party office with the aid of the police after we failed to procure important party documents. We had to break the lock to gain entry and we had to remove everything there because we were not getting the cooperation of the other faction. After we left and began searching for the party documents, we realized a huge crime had been committed. Almost all the computers had their hard disks removed. Any hard disks remaining had been wiped and the party database is missing," Arif explained.
Arif said that all of the financial records of the party, minutes of party meetings and agreements with other parties are also among the missing documents.
He also said a police case has been filed because the missing documents were a right of all members of the party.
