Technical issues delay former MMPRC head Ziyath's sentencing

Due to technical issues, the sentencing hearing of former MMPRC head Abdulla Ziyath has been postponed. 

The sentencing hearing was scheduled for 10:30 today but was postponed due to the technical difficulties to tomorrow. 

Ziyath had plead guilty to 32 charges filed against him with the Criminal Court under a plea deal.

The State prosecutor said that given the 32 charges in question, as well as the Maabinhura case are connected to the MMPRC graft case, both the State and Ziyath are in agreement that contesting the Maabinhura conviction with the Supreme Court while confessing to the other 32 charges at the Criminal Court will prove contradictory in nature.

Ziyath had earlier said in court that he had personally received the cheques related to the scandal, but had not benefited financially from them. 

He said that the cheques were then handed over to others upon the instructions of former Vice President Ahmed Adeeb who had told him that the funds were used for government work.