President\u00a0Dr. Mohamed Muizzu\u00a0has announced the dismissal of two\u00a0Deputy Commissioners\u00a0from the\u00a0Maldives Customs Service\u00a0in connection with separate cases of\u00a0cigarette smuggling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The decision, revealed by the President via social media, follows\u00a0recommendations from Parliament\u00a0based on findings from the\u00a0Parliamentary Committee on National Security Services (the 241 Committee). The cases under investigation involve the\u00a0smuggling of cigarettes aboard a f<\/strong>uel tanker operated by The Hawks Pvt Ltd, as well as the\u00a0unauthorized removal of cigarettes from a bonded warehouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In his statement, President Muizzu said the dismissals were carried out in line with the committee\u2019s recommendations and emphasized the government\u2019s commitment to ensuring accountability within state institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The President also confirmed that the\u00a0Maldives Customs Service\u00a0has been instructed to take appropriate action under internal policy against\u00a0three additional staff members\u00a0implicated in the investigations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Authorities have not yet disclosed the identities of the dismissed officials or further details of the ongoing inquiries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President\u00a0Dr. Mohamed Muizzu\u00a0has announced the dismissal of two\u00a0Deputy Commissioners\u00a0from the\u00a0Maldives Customs Service\u00a0in connection with separate cases of\u00a0cigarette smuggling. The decision, revealed by the President via social media, follows\u00a0recommendations from Parliament\u00a0based on findings from the\u00a0Parliamentary Committee on National Security Services (the 241 Committee). The cases under investigation involve the\u00a0smuggling of cigarettes aboard a fuel tanker operated … Continue reading “Two Deputy Commissioners Dismissed from Maldives Customs Over Cigarette Smuggling Cases”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7305,"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7303\/revisions\/7305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}