-By A Staff Writer
(Lanka-e-News -21.March.2025, 11.00 PM) In what can only be described as a spectacular fall from grace, Shaman Wahid, the now-former Controller General of Immigration in the Maldives, found himself out of a job and under police scrutiny—just months after taking office. His crime? Well, let’s just say it involved a Maldivian-style cocktail of corruption, arrogance, and a serious lack of legal due process.
Shaman Wahid walked into office on November 19, 2023, with the confidence of a man who thought he was going to single-handedly save the Maldives from illegal immigration. Instead, he turned the Immigration Department into his own little kingdom—where due process was an inconvenience and wads of cash magically appeared in the strangest of places (like his house).
It turns out, Wahid wasn’t just implementing anti-Sri Lankan policies, he was also running a full-fledged passport printing operation, catering to the highest bidder from the Middle East. Yes, you read that right—while he was busy kicking out innocent Sri Lankans, he was allegedly handing out Maldivian passports like party favors to people whose names he probably couldn’t even pronounce.
One of his most infamous actions was the abrupt deportation of Sri Lankan citizen Nadeesh Perera, without any legal justification or proper process. Nadeesh , who was married to a Maldivian woman and had a child with her, found himself kicked out and blacklisted—simply because Wahid felt like it.
Legal proceedings? Human rights? A court order? Who needs those when you can rule by ego?
Wahid’s anti-Sri Lankan stance became so extreme that even people with legal work permits started facing sudden deportation threats. No one was safe—not even those with businesses, families, or decades of residence in the Maldives.
The true scale of Wahid’s brilliance (or lack thereof) became clear when the police raided his house the same night he was fired. Inside, they found money. Lots of money. And passports. Lots of passports.
Not just Maldivian ones either—there were reports that Wahid had been selling citizenships to Middle Eastern individuals, conveniently forgetting that he was actually supposed to be stopping illegal immigration, not profiting from it.
Even more amusingly, while his home was raided, Wahid himself was nowhere to be found. The man who ran Immigration suddenly became a ghost.
With Wahid out of the picture, former Commissioner of Police Ahmed Faseeh was swiftly appointed as his replacement—probably with strict instructions to not turn the Immigration Department into a black-market passport business.
The investigation into “several employees of Maldives Immigration who misused their authority to gain undue benefits from expatriate workers” is ongoing, and while Wahid himself hasn’t been arrested (yet), the clock is ticking.
If there’s anything to be learned from the Shaman Wahid saga, it’s that corruption has a way of catching up with people—even those who think they are untouchable. Wahid’s reckless abuse of power, mixed with a generous dose of greed, turned what should have been a prestigious job into a scandal of epic proportions.
And now? Wahid is jobless, disgraced, and very possibly headed for a one-way trip to prison.
If only he had focused on doing his actual job instead of playing dictator, he might still have one today.
-By A Staff Writer
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