Transparency International and its local chapter have called on the prosecutor general to dismiss charges against a senior bank official on trial for leaking documents related...
Adeeb's lawyer confirmed to The Maldives Independent that his client was questioned last week by the Anti-Corruption Commission about the large sums deposited to the president's...
The ruling party-controlled parliament voted through today controversial changes to the tourism law that authorises the government to lease islands for resort development without a competitive...
In a message posted on the PPM MPs' Viber group yesterday, the former president said authorising the government to lease islands for resort development without a...
The People's Majlis approved today President Abdulla Yameen's nominees for the new Maldivian permanent representative to the UN and non-resident ambassador to the Netherlands and Luxembourg.
The ruling party-dominated parliament voted today to push through changes to the tourism law that would authorise the government to lease islands without a competitive bidding...
A magistrate has been convicted of conspiring to kidnap President Abdulla Yameen by forging a warrant for his arrest over the Maldives' biggest corruption scandal. Ahmed...
The anti-corruption watchdog has asked the Prosecutor General's office to press charges against jailed former Vice President Ahmed Adeeb over a US$6 million corruption scandal exposed...
The parliament's public accounts oversight committee has launched an inquiry into corruption cases under investigation since 2008, including the Maldives Marketing and Public Relations Corporation corruption...
"Let’s say Al Capone were to come along and tell you to do something, well you would just do it. In the Maldives, the president and...
The embezzlement of US$5 million paid for leasing the island of Mabinhura in Lhaviyani atoll was carried out on the instructions of detained former Vice President...
Ruling coalition MP Mohamed Ismail has stood by his admission of bribing opposition lawmakers, claiming he distributed cash as a favour to detained former Vice President...
A judge detained over a "fake" warrant to arrest President Abdulla Yameen in connection with the Maldives' biggest corruption scandal has pleaded not guilty to charges...
Omnia Strategy, a legal consultancy firm chaired by Cherie Blair, the wife of former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, was paid more than £200,000 by a...
President Abdulla Yameen has blamed former President Mohamed Nasheed's claims of Maldivians joining extremist groups in Syria for an international bank dropping the Maldives from its...
The main opposition Maldivian Democratic Party has said that the government's infringement of the constitutional right to freedom of assembly shows its "lack of sincerity" in...
Opposition MPs Ahmed Mahloof and Eva Abdulla were summoned for questioning by the police on Friday after the pair dumped fake dollar bills with President Abdulla...