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Maldives Arbitration Center inoperative

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The original Dhivehi article was published on Mihaaru.com website on 2nd May 2018 The following is a loose translation: Some might even be baffled to hear that the Maldives also has an international arbitration centre. Because most are aware of only the internationally held arbitration cases. Since big commercial arbitration cases were also conducted overseas, […]

Anca Verma

Maldives ‘invites’ company of an arms dealer to construct international airport

2 min read

The Government of Maldives has ‘invited’ an Indian arms dealer’s company to construct an international airport in the country. RaajjeMV understands the deal was carried out without the bidding process. The company, RaajjeMV understands, is Olialia and is owned by Anca Verma, spouse to known arms dealer Abhishek Verma. The 30-year old Anka Verma is […]

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Airport development works in need of revving up

3 min read

The original Dhivehi article was published on Avas.mv website on 16th August 2017. The following is a loose translation: It was just recently that one of Thailand’s wealthy tycoons invested in a mega-project in Emboodhoo Lagoon. We are talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars here. To be precise, more than billion dollars. His decision […]