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Politics

Thursday roundup: businessmen-lawmakers oppose income tax

A roundup of the day’s top stories.

31 Oct 2019, 9:00 AM

Crime

Ex-vice president detained in India after fleeing Maldives

Police said efforts are underway to bring Adeeb back.

01 Aug 2019, 9:00 AM

Politics

Adeeb freed from house arrest

The former vice president served a 15-day sentence for contempt of court.

15 Jul 2019, 9:00 AM

Politics

Ex-VP Adeeb freed as court quashes corruption conviction

The High Court overturned the eight-year sentence and ordered a retrial.

30 May 2019, 9:00 AM

Politics

Supreme Court overturns ex-VP’s terrorism conviction

Adeeb’s combined 33-year jail sentence is now down to eight years.

27 May 2019, 9:00 AM

Crime

Ex-VP’s conviction over assassination attempt overturned

The High Court quashed the 15-year jail sentence and ordered a retrial.

20 May 2019, 9:00 AM

Crime

State seeks to overturn ex-vice president’s terrorism conviction

Adeeb was sentenced to 10 years over the possession of a pistol.

28 Apr 2019, 9:00 AM

Politics

Ex-vice president’s supporters protest return to prison

Adeeb was taken back to prison after he was discharged from hospital.

20 Jan 2019, 9:00 AM

Crime

Adeeb returned to prison

Doctors advised Adeeb’s transfer to house arrest for two months, the home minister said.

03 Jan 2019, 9:00 AM

Politics

In house arrest, Adeeb joins new party

The former vice president was released to house arrest after three years in prison.

01 Dec 2018, 9:00 AM

Culture

Ex-vice president in stable condition after surgery

Ahmed Adeeb underwent surgery to remove kidney stones.

19 Nov 2018, 9:00 AM

Crime

Maldives president implicated in corrupt island leases

New evidence was uncovered by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP).

18 Sep 2018, 9:00 AM

Business & Tourism

Watchdog ‘challenging Supreme Court’ with US$110m claim against Villa

The Anti-Corruption Commission says the state incurred heavy losses due to a 2013 settlement agreement with Villa that waived rent for properties leased for resort development.

17 Jun 2018, 9:00 AM

Business & Tourism

Jailed ex-vice president ordered to pay US$5m

Adeeb was ordered to pay MVR74 million (US$4.7 million) as compensation for losses incurred in the leasing of the Nasandhuraa Palace Hotel in Malé.

03 Apr 2018, 9:00 AM

Politics

Prisons authority threatens action against slander

The Maldives Correctional Service denied attempting to coerce Ahmed Adeeb’s family to give consent for administering an injection to the jailed former vice president.

17 Oct 2017, 9:00 AM

Politics

Adeeb refuses injection over fear of assassination plot

Adeeb’s family said the prisons authority’s push to give him the injection ostensibly for a CT scan was “suspicious” because his lawyers were previously tipped off to an alleged plot to assassinate the 35-year-old in custody.

15 Oct 2017, 9:00 AM

Politics

Government behind Nasheed’s verdict, Adeeb tells Supreme Court

Adeeb alleged that Nasheed was prosecuted because he was leading a political campaign to free former Defence Minister Mohamed Nazim.

16 Jul 2017, 9:00 AM

Politics

Adeeb’s lawyers allege assassination plot

Adeeb’s lawyer Mahfooz Saeed wrote to Police Commissioner Ahmed Areef on Sunday claiming to have learned of “a plot to assassinate my client former Vice President Ahmed Adeeb in his cell in Dhoonidhoo prison.”

04 Jul 2017, 9:00 AM

Politics

Adeeb’s admission of frame-up fuels calls for Nazim’s release

Adeeb told the Supreme Court that the pistol found in Nazim’s bedroom did not belong to the then-defence minister, assuring the chief justice “as someone who knows very well the reasons why the incident occurred the way it did, how the planning began, the people involved, and how it ended”.

02 Jul 2017, 9:00 AM

Politics

‘What I saw as real was not reality’: Adeeb’s open letter from prison

The jailed former vice president shared an open letter to the public through his lawyer after failing to secure permission to travel overseas for the treatment of glaucoma, kidney stones and internal cysts.

11 Jun 2017, 9:00 AM

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