A digest of news and opinion from the Maldives.
Jailed former vice president Ahmed Adeeb is being charged for bribing intelligence officials while he was in government. A spokesman from the Prosecutor General’s office told the Maldives Independent a case against Adeeb was forwarded to the criminal court on Tuesday. The charges are bribery and official misconduct. According to Raajjemv, Adeeb stands accused of […]
Two high ranking former officials have been charged with misuse of authority, three years after an investigation revealed their involvement in letting a high profile drug trafficker leave the country illegally. A spokesman from the Prosecutor General’s office told media on Thursday that a case against former prisons commissioner, Moosa Azim, and former deputy home […]
Mohamed Nimal, formerly the managing director of MRDC. FILE PHOTO/MIHAARU The Prosecutor General’s Office informed the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Wednesday, to take back the charges against Mohamed Nimal, the former managing director of the state-run utility firm Fenaka Corporation, and three others for the illegal purchase of US Dollars to the corporation. Fenaka had […]
The police and an ambulance at the scene of the accident that occurred on Addy City’s link road on December 26, 2017. PHOTO / SOCIAL MEDIA The man who was driving the vehicle that caused an accident on Addu City’s link road, which killed a 13-year-old, was arrested on Wednesday. According to the police, the […]
The police headquarters, Shaheedh Hussain Adam Building in the capital Male. PHOTO / MIHAARU There were fewer crimes reported in 2017 compared to the statistics of 2016, Maldives Police Service revealed on Tuesday. According to statistics published by the police, there were 13,580 cases filed at the police in 2016. However, in 2017, the amount […]
Six people were brutally killed in the Maldives in 2017 despite a low rate of crime compared to the previous year, police statistics have shown. According to the stats, 12,745 cases were reported last year in comparison to the 13,580 cases reported in 2016. Theft was the most reported crime in 2017, at 3,503 incidents, […]
The Maldives is ready to carry out executions, local media has reported a government minister as saying, ending a six-decade moratorium on capital punishment. Home Minister Azleen Ahmed told Raajje TV that work has been completed on building a place to carry out the death penalty and that executions will resume as soon as legal […]
The Maldives is among the countries where terrorists are ‘very likely’ to carry out a terrorist attack this holiday season, says the British Foreign Office. The British media has warned Brits to be vigilant while visiting the countries to which the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has issued travel advisories. Popular destinations currently labelled as being […]
The criminal court on Wednesday ordered the return of large amounts of alcohol seized from a tourist liveaboard by the police in a raid last week. The verdict came after the owner of the liveaboard lodged a case in court claiming the alcohol was seized in violation of the criminal procedures act. In an operation […]