The Maldives Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has forwarded a case to the Prosecutor General's Office seeking prosecution of the former controller of immigration, local media reported here on Friday.

The former Controller of Immigration Ilyas Hussain Ibrahim and four other members of the project steering committee at the Department of Immigration and Emigration were the officials that handled the controversial border control system project.

The officials have been accused of accepting laptops as bribes from Nexbis, the Malaysian company hired for the border control project. The laptops were not listed in the concession agreement that outlined the equipment owed by Nexbis to Maldives, ACC said.

The ACC investigation said that the laptops were to be used to test the border control modules, conduct trainings on utilizing the border control system and improve communication within the project's stakeholders.

However, ACC has argued that all of these tasks could have been carried out with exiting desktop computers, local media outlet Sun reported.

In February 2013, State raised charges against the former Controller Ilyas Hussain and former Finance Ministry's head of tender evaluation section, Director General Saamee Ageel for conferring undue advantage through corruption, over the same controversial border control system project. Endi

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