Crime
Police seize 2kg of drugs from state-owned cargo boat
Police officers raided STO’s MV Bonthi boat with a search warrant while it was anchored near the uninhabited island of Vakkaru in Baa atoll yesterday.
08 Dec 2015, 09:00
Bomb scare in northern island
“It was made of plastic bottles and foil was wrapped around it. One of our employees noticed fire inside the engine room and went in to inspect,” an employee at the Haa Alif Ihavandhoo powerhouse said.
06 Dec 2015, 09:00
Suspicion cast on ex vice president over journalist’s disappearance
The home minister said Adeeb is being questioned over Rilwan’s disappearance. But the former vice president’s lawyers have denied the claim.
26 Nov 2015, 09:00
Terrorism charges filed against ex vice president
Former Vice President Ahmed Adeeb has been charged with terrorism on suspicion of carrying a pistol, the prosecutor general’s office has said.
25 Nov 2015, 09:00
Police officer, accused of being accomplice to rape, compensated for dismissal
A court has ordered the police to pay more than MVR800,000 (US$56,420) in damages to an officer who was dismissed in 2010 on a charge of being an accomplice to the rape of a woman.
22 Nov 2015, 09:00
Boat blast suspect re-arrested on money laundering charge
An influential businessman, arrested in Malaysia, on suspicion of links to an explosion on President Abdulla Yameen’s speedboat was released on Friday, but detained immediately on a new charge of money laundering.
21 Nov 2015, 09:00
Court says Feb 7 police brutality video altered, acquits officer
A police officer caught on camera brutalizing an opposition member on February 7, 2012, was cleared of charges after a criminal court judge ruled that the video of the assault was tampered with.
21 Nov 2015, 09:00
Maldivian man hospitalized after mugging in Colombo
A Maldivian man who was mugged has been hospitalized with head injuries in Colombo, Sri Lanka. His injuries are not severe, according to the man’s hosts.
18 Nov 2015, 09:00
Maldivian man found murdered in Sri Lanka
A 29-year-old Maldivian man was found dead in a paddy field in the outskirts of Colombo, Sri Lanka on Thursday. The deceased has been identified as Hussain Razeen ‘Rabarey,’ from the Hundred Flower house in the Henveiru ward of Malé. Razeen was a prime suspect in a murder committed in 2007.
08 Nov 2015, 09:00
Sri Lankan sniper, hired to ‘assassinate president,’ detained in Maldives
A Sri Lankan national has been arrested on a charge of attempting to assassinate Maldives President Abdulla Yameen, the police revealed today.
07 Nov 2015, 09:00
Multiple bomb scares in Maldives capital
Hundreds were evacuated this morning from Malé’s southwest harbor in the third bomb scare of the day. Security forces said a third suspicious object had been found under a fuel drum, but it turned out to be “fake.”
05 Nov 2015, 09:00
Man arrested over photo of boat blast suspect
Ismail Shakir, an employee of the state-owned Maldives Airports Company Ltd (MACL), was arrested for taking a photograph of Maldivian police officers taking a suspect in a ‘bomb plot’ into custody from the airport tarmac on Friday.
02 Nov 2015, 09:00
Saudi experts found trace of explosives on president’s speedboat
Forensic experts from Saudi Arabia found trace of a powerful explosive on President Abdulla Yameen’s speedboat, the national inquiry commission has said in a press statement tonight.
30 Oct 2015, 09:00
Home minister vows to ‘find the truth’ behind Rilwan’s disappearance
Home Minister Umar Naseer met with the family of missing journalist Ahmed Rilwan today and assured them of the government’s commitment to “find the truth” behind the unexplained disappearance.
27 Oct 2015, 09:00
Ex-president’s lawyer denounces claim stabbing provoked by personal matter
Mahfooz Saeed, a member of former President Mohamed Nasheed’s legal team, has denounced a government claim that his stabbing was provoked by a dispute over legal work not related to the jailed opposition leader’s case.
26 Oct 2015, 09:00
Raids continue in Malé
Police today raided Lismata in the Maafannu ward today, where Adeeb’s first wife and his children live. A police spokesman confirmed that a search was underway.
25 Oct 2015, 09:00
17 arrested for ‘disrupting public order’ released
The 17 people, including two minors, taken into custody yesterday for “disrupting public order” in the wake of Vice President Ahmed Adeeb’s arrest.
25 Oct 2015, 09:00
News website hacked after repeated threats to journalists
Hassan Zaheen, senior journalist at Addu Live, told The Maldives Independent that suspects acquitted by the criminal court had often called reporters and demanded the removal of articles on corruption of judges and news items critical of the government.
22 Oct 2015, 09:00
Sri Lankan experts confirm bomb blast on president’s speedboat, says home minister
Umar Naseer told the press today that a team of forensic experts from Sri Lanka who investigated the incident has confirmed that the blast was caused by an explosive device. Forensic teams from the US, Saudi Arabia, Australia, and India also investigated the blast, but have not shared their findings with the government so far.
20 Oct 2015, 09:00
Suspect wanted for stabbing of Nasheed’s lawyer arrested
A police spokesman confirmed that Ahmed Raaid, 20 years, one of the two suspects wanted over the stabbing, has been taken into police custody. He declined to comment on where Raaid had been apprehended.
20 Oct 2015, 09:00
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