Pradoville II
VICE and the VP
To see our Vice President fumbling for words the other evening in his interview with VICE Media was not pretty. His typical press conference begins with a two-hour monologue touching on every issue, many of which are outside his chief cook and bottle washer portfolio. Local media operators tolerate these because most of them are … Read more
Judge dismisses Irfaan Ali’s challenge to ‘Pradoville’ fraud charges
Former Minister of Housing and presidential hopeful of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) Mohamed Irfaan Ali has lost a challenge to the validity of 19 fraud charges levelled against him over the sale of land in the ‘Pradoville 2’ Housing Scheme, resulting in him now having to go to trial. The decision paving the way … Read more
Irfaan Ali on 19 fraud charges over Pradoville Two
Nineteen charges of conspiracy to defraud by common law, were yesterday instituted against former PPP/C Minister of Housing, Mohammed Irfaan Ali by the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU), after nearly two years of investigations. The charges, which detail offences alleged to have occurred between the period of September, 2010 to March 30, 2015, are in … Read more