Ex-defence minister vows to hold president accountable for frame-up
Nazim returned as a free man after the Supreme Court suspended his 11-year jail sentence.
12 Nov 2018, 9:00 AM
Former defence minister Mohamed Nazim vowed upon his return to the country Sunday night to bring outgoing President Abdulla Yameen to justice for his alleged framing in early 2015.
The retired colonel, who went to Malaysia in early October after he was granted medical leave from prison, returned as a free man after the Supreme Court suspended his 11-year jail sentence for a review of his weapons smuggling conviction.
Speaking to the media for the first time since his imprisonment, Nazim said he would urge president-elect Ibrahim Mohamed Solih to identify those responsible and hold them accountable for unjustly jailing him for nearly four years.
“I believe this was a very wicked atrocity committed with the involvement of then-police commissioner Hussain Waheed and President Yameen,” he told reporters at the airport.
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