Bribery charges dismissed against ex-Supreme Court justices
The bribery charge was the president’s justification for February’s state of emergency.
10 Oct 2018, 9:00 AM
Citing insufficient evidence, the criminal court on Wednesday threw out bribery charges against two former Supreme Court justices, the former chief judicial administrator and the son of an opposition leader.
Following their arrest during a state of emergency in February, Ibrahim Siyad Gasim – the son of Jumhooree Party leader Gasim Ibrahim and managing director of his Villa conglomerate – was charged with bribing then-chief justice Abdulla Saeed, justice Ali Hameed and judicial administrator Hassan Saeed.
President Abdulla Yameen claimed the justices accepted bribes and instigated a coup with its February 1 order for the release of his jailed opponents.
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