Ex-VP Adeeb freed as court quashes corruption conviction
The High Court overturned the eight-year sentence and ordered a retrial.
30 May 2019, 9:00 AM
Former vice president Ahmed Adeeb walked out of the High Court as an innocent man Thursday morning after his eight-year jail sentence on a corruption charge was overturned.
The court ordered a retrial over the alleged embezzlement of US$5 million paid as a resort acquisition fee.
The decision was largely based on last year’s Supreme Court order for Adeeb’s release on the grounds of political influence over his trial.
When the shock ruling on February 1, 2018 was reversed after the arrest of two justices, only the specific part that ordered the release of political prisoners had been rescinded, the High Court noted. Therefore, the top court’s declaration that Adeeb’s trial had been conducted unfairly through undue influence over judges and the chief prosecutor remained valid, it added.
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