MDP claims evidence of Maldives government involvement in terrorism financing

In an explosive statement today, the MDP said it had received a report of a covert intelligence operation based on direct interviews with officials of President Abdulla Yameen’s administration, and analyses conducted on material found on detained former Vice President Ahmed Adeeb’s personal laptops.

The evidence appears to show that senior politicians, police, military, and judges are “working together in a single criminal conspiracy creating a haven for corruption, turning a nascent democracy into an industrial-scale kleptocracy,” the party said.

Massive influxes of cash from unidentified sources from Saudi Arabia, amounting to more than £500 million, were also distributed as bribes, the statement in English read. It claimed that in the beginning of 2015 alone, some £7million in cash arrived in the Maldives from the Gulf by plane.