News in brief: Adeeb requests televised trial
The ex-vice president is facing trial on fresh corruption charges.
23 Oct 2019, 9:00 AM
Ex-vice president asks for televised trial
Former vice president Ahmed Adeeb has requested the criminal court to arrange for live broadcasts of his upcoming trial.
The court has yet to respond to the request, Adeeb’s lawyer Mahfooz Saeed told the media on Wednesday. Fresh charges were raised against Adeeb last month over the theft of US$90 million from the Maldives Marketing and Public Relations Corporation, a corruption scandal of unprecedented scale in the country’s history.
In July, former president Abdulla Yameen’s trial on money laundering charges became the first to be broadcast live on television. A verdict is due on November 5.
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