Police investigating ‘fake warrant’ issued for President Yameen’s arrest
Chief Superintendent Mohamed Riyaz told the press that former President Mohamed Nasheed – who is currently in the UK on a 30-day medical leave from prison – called a senior officer of the security services and encouraged him to enforce the bogus arrest warrant.
07 Feb 2016, 9:00 AM
The police are investigating an “invalid” warrant issued by an island magistrate court in early hours of Sunday for the arrest of President Abdulla Yameen.
Chief Superintendent Mohamed Riyaz told the press this afternoon that a group of people from Malé went to an unspecified island after midnight, opened the magistrate court around 3:00am, and worked with a judge to issue the arrest warrant.
Riyaz said the fake warrant contained information falsely attributed to the Maldives Police Service. It also stated that Yameen was to be arrested in connection to an ongoing probe.
The group then “left the warrant on a street in the capital and tried to hand it over to police officers,” Riyaz said, adding that they tried to create the impression that the police were about to take the president into custody.
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