Foreign minister briefs Colombo diplomats on Maldives crisis
Foreign Minister Dunya Maumoon is in Colombo to brief the diplomatic community on Vice President Ahmed Adeeb’s arrest on suspicion of links to a blast on President Abdulla Yameen’s speedboat.
29 Oct 2015, 9:00 AM
Foreign Minister Dunya Maumoon is in Colombo today to brief the diplomatic community on Vice President Ahmed Adeeb’s arrest. He is being held on suspicion of links to a blast on President Abdulla Yameen’s speedboat on September 28.
“Vice President Adeeb was arrested by the Maldives Police as a suspect, because an independent assessment and an impartial investigation of the explosion could not be carried out unless the Vice President was taken into custody. This step was considered a necessary step to protect the integrity of the investigation,” Dunya told the diplomatic corps this morning.
The police, with assistance from forensic experts from Sri Lanka, United States and Saudi Arabia, have established that the blast was targeted to assassinate or incapacitate Yameen, she said, according to a statement by her office.
The inquiry into the blast has also found that elements within the security forces attempted to tamper with and destroy evidence, she went on.
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