Ex-colonel completes prison term
Ahmed ‘Papa’ Fayaz served more than two years on obstruction charges in connection with an explosion on the president’s speedboat.
12 Jun 2018, 9:00 AM
A former colonel has been released from prison after serving more than two years on obstruction charges in connection with an explosion on the president’s speedboat in September 2015.
Maldives Correctional Service confirmed Ahmed ‘Papa’ Fayaz’s release from Maafushi prison on Monday.
Fayaz was accused of refusing to let police officers examine the scene of the explosion and ordering two soldiers to tamper with evidence.
President Abdulla Yameen escaped unhurt from the explosion, but his wife and two aides sustained minor injuries. His former vice president Ahmed Adeeb was found guilty of orchestrating the alleged assassination plot and handed a 15-year jail term in June 2016.
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