‘The cash that entered my house was not halal’: Yameen
The opposition has seized upon President Abdulla Yameen’s apparent admission that he benefited from a historic corruption scandal pinned on his jailed former right-hand man.
15 Aug 2017, 9:00 AM
President Abdulla Yameen has stirred controversy with an apparent admission of personally benefiting from a historic corruption scandal blamed on his jailed former right-hand man.
Speaking at the opening of a ruling party meeting hall Monday night, Yameen said opposition leaders would allege that he was a beneficiary as long as the nearly US$80 million embezzled from the state-owned Maldives Marketing and Public Relations Corporation remains missing.
Addressing allegations made in an Al Jazeera corruption exposé about former Vice President Ahmed Adeeb’s associates delivering the stolen cash to his residence, Yameen said: “Al Jazeera only saw bags [of cash] taken into my house. They didn’t see anything else at all. So we have to find that money, don’t we? So to protect my reputation as well, I want this money to come in.”
“And which MPs were elected by spending this money, we should see that, too. Cash wouldn’t have entered in bags only into Dhooevehi [Yameen’s private residence] then. It was Ahmed Adeeb who spent on the people we wanted to get elected to the People’s Majlis at any cost.
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