MP Faris Maumoon placed under arrest
The lawmaker’s arrest on a bribery charge comes amid heightened political tension ahead of next week’s no-confidence vote against Speaker Abdulla Maseeh Mohamed.
18 Jul 2017, 9:00 AM
MP Faris Maumoon has been arrested after the police raided his home looking for evidence of the alleged bribery of lawmakers to back the opposition’s bid to unseat the speaker of parliament.
According to the arrest warrant granted by Judge Adam Arif, Faris is accused of “unduly influencing lawmakers and acting illegally” to secure 42 signatures for the no-confidence motion against Speaker Abdulla Maseeh Mohamed.
Faris was taken to the detention centre on the nearby island of Dhoonidhoo after police officers searched his residence in Malé for four hours Tuesday morning. Police officers entered the Snow Rose house in the Maafanu ward of the capital around 9 am and cordoned off the area.
Judge Ibrahim Ali authorised the police to search Faris’s apartment and seize his laptop, cheque book, bank documents, storage devices, and other documents related to the case. The police submitted a secret intelligence report, a witness statement, text messages, and the transcript from a video footage as evidence to obtain both the search and arrest warrants from the criminal court.
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