MP Saud summoned over alleged plot to assassinate judge

MP Saud Hussain was questioned by the police Thursday night over an alleged plot to assassinate High Court Judge Shujau Usman.

“I am suspected of funding and plotting to kill Usman and also plotting to put him in jail,” the lawmaker told the Maldives Independent.

Saud said he denied the allegation and gave a statement for the police investigation.

A relative of Saud’s and a former senior police executive at the education ministry, Ibrahim Haneef, was arrested on April 4 on terrorism charges for allegedly plotting to assassinate the judge. The criminal court extended his remand detention four times before transferring him to house arrest in mid-May.