Gasim departs for Singapore on 10-day medical leave
The 67-year-old business tycoon was allowed to leave with a travel document nearly two weeks after he was found guilty of attempted bribery and sentenced to more than three years in prison.
07 Sep 2017, 9:00 AM
Jumhooree Party leader Gasim Ibrahim departed for Singapore late Wednesday night after the Maldives Correctional Service authorised a 10-day medical leave for the convicted opposition lawmaker.
The 67-year-old business tycoon was allowed to leave with a travel document nearly two weeks after he was found guilty of attempted bribery and sentenced to more than three years in prison.
The midnight verdict was delivered in absentia while Gasim was hospitalised after collapsing inside the courthouse. Citing doctor’s advice, Judge Adam Arif also ordered the authorities to arrange for Gasim to be urgently flown overseas for tests unavailable in the Maldives.
After visiting him at the hospital as an envoy of the president last week, Home Minister Azleen Ahmed assured that medical leave would be arranged within days, but the Attorney General’s office went on to appeal the part of Gasim’s verdict that ordered the authorities to arrange for treatment overseas.
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