Maldives police lied about Rilwan abduction

Mohamed Suaid, who was charged in absentia three years later, was arrested in late September 2014 with evidence of hostile surveillance, a credible police source confirmed.

Suaid was interrogated on October 1, 2014 and accused of lying when he denied following Rilwan, according to information from the police investigation seen by the Maldives Independent.

However, until April 2016, police refused to say that Rilwan was abducted. They denied any link between an abduction at knife-point reported outside Rilwan’s apartment in Hulhumalé – seen by several eyewitnesses around the time he would have reached home – and his disappearance after Suaid followed him to the Hulhumalé ferry terminal in Malé.