Evidence submitted to prove Adeeb planned to flee after boat blast
A forensic analysis of the former vice president’s mobile phone “shows that Adeeb had used his phone to search online for ways to assassinate the president using chemicals or explosives and that he had searched for ways to flee the country and obtain a visa from another country,” the state prosecutor explained.
28 May 2016, 9:00 AM
State prosecutors submitted a list of witnesses and forensic evidence to the criminal court on Thursday to make its case that former Vice President Ahmed Adeeb masterminded the September 28 blast on President Abdulla Yamen’s speedboat.
Hisham Wajeeh, spokesman for the Prosecutor General’s office, told The Maldives Independent that a forensic analysis report of Adeeb’s mobile phone was submitted to prove that he had planned to flee the Maldives if the alleged assassination attempt was unsuccessful.
“The report shows that Adeeb had used his phone to search online for ways to assassinate the president using chemicals or explosives and that he had searched for ways to flee the country and obtain a visa from another country,” he explained.
Adeeb and his former military bodyguards, Sergeant Hassan Rikaz and Corporal Ahmed Amir, are accused of planting an improvised explosive device on the Finifenma speedboat.
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