Adeeb “saddened” at PPM colleague’s attempts to link him with missing journalist
01 Nov 2014, 4:31 PM
Daniel Bosley
Tourism minister Ahmed Adeeb has expressed sadness at reports fellow party member Ahmed Nazim had attempted to link him with the disappearance of Minivan News journalist Ahmed Rilwan.
“I am saddened that former Majlis Deputy Speaker asked different journalists to write, implicating me in the case to divert focus, as the case was being investigated by police,” said the deputy leader of the Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM) yesterday.
Adeeb spoke to the press in response to a damning report from the auditor general, implicating him in a US$6 million corruption scandal.
Rumours of Nazim’s attempts to have Adeeb linked with the disappearance of Rilwan on August 8 first appeared in an independent report commissioned by the Maldivian Democracy Network in September.
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