Malaysian company Nexbis which was awarded the project to establish the Border Control System (BCS) has denied allegations that officials from the company had met with Ahmed Shareef the Chief Judge of the High Court and also denied having resumed work on the BCS project. In a press release issued by the company it was stated that the case submitted to the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) alleging that the Chief Judge of the High Court Ahmed Shareef had met with officials from the company at Bangkok while the case alleging corruption in assigning the project to Nexbis was underway at court, is baseless and denied any company officials having met with the Judge.
The statement also criticized the ACC disclosing the case to the media based on allegations made by an individual with no prior background checks into the case or the individual and claimed that the ACC cannot find evidence to prove the accusations.
The High Court had also earlier denied the allegations on behalf of the Chief Judge.
Citing the Chief Judge an official from the court said that he had travelled to Singapore with two other Judges on an official trip and that the allegations made against him involving Nexbis are not true and is an attempt by someone or a group at tarnishing his reputation.
Judge Shuaib Hussain Zakariya and Judge Abdu Rauf Ibrahim had accompanied Chief Judge Ahmed Shareef to an E-commerce Conference held in Singapore, but while Judge Shuaib and Abdu Rauf returned back home, Haveeru had learned that Shareef travelled to Bangkok and returned home a week later.
Nexbis stated that work on the border control system project had not resumed prior to the dismissal of the High Court order to halt work on the project and that the allegations made in line with the claim by the ACC is false similar to several other allegations made by the commission previously which have not been proven.
An official from ACC said on Saturday that the commission is seeking a court order to halt the resuming of the BCS project, which had been rumored lately. However the Department of Immigration denied this allegation as well.
“As long as the High Court order is in effect no work has been done. Following the issuing of the order by the court and the Department of Immigration and Emigration asking us to halt work on the project the company has not proceeded with any work,†the statement read.
Rumors that Nexbis had resumed work on the BCS project began circulating afresh following the issuing of the “Mandamus order†by the Supreme Court stating that the changes brought to the bench of Judges presiding over the BCS project case on May 3, 2012 was in violation of the constitution effectively dismissing all decisions taken by the bench on the case.
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