Criminal Court sentence drug lord to 25 years for trafficking cannabis
20 Mar 2013, 12:05 PM
Ahmed Nazeer
The Criminal Court has sentenced 43 year-old Ahmed Rasheed, of Always Happy House in Male’, to 25 years in prison after finding him guilty of trafficking cannabis into the Maldives.
Rasheed was arrested by police in May 2012 during a police effort to uncover a drug network operating in the Maldives.
The court said police arrested Rasheed on May 2, 2012, at 7:15 pm in an operation conducted following intelligence that Rasheed was in possession of drugs.
According to the Criminal Court, police located Rasheed inside a teashop called ‘Sai Hotaa’. When Rasheed saw the police officers, he pulled out a plastic can that contained illegal drugs and threw it away.
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