MPs summoned to police after dumping fake dollars outside president’s residence
Opposition MPs Ahmed Mahloof and Eva Abdulla were summoned for questioning by the police on Friday after the pair dumped fake dollar bills with President Abdulla Yameen’s face outside his private residence on Wednesday morning.
14 Feb 2016, 9:00 AM
Opposition MPs Ahmed Mahloof and Eva Abdulla were summoned for questioning by the police over the weekend after the pair dumped fake dollar bills with President Abdulla Yameen’s face outside his private residence on Wednesday morning.
The MPs went to the police headquarters Friday afternoon wearing T-shirts with the president’s face on the dollar bill.
According to their lawyer Nazim Sattar, the pair is accused of engaging in “violent or threatening behaviour” and creating “a hazardous, physically offensive, or seriously alarming condition by an act that serves no legitimate purpose.”
The offence of “disorderly conduct” under section 615 of the penal code is a class three misdemeanour that carries either a fine or a jail sentence of three months.
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