Yameen said he "can't be touched" if the trial is fair.
The defence plans to call former central bank governor Azeema Adam.
He was transferred after reporting suspicious transactions by former president Yameen.
The hearing was the first to be broadcast live on television.
The opposition leader was detained for the duration of a money laundering trial.
Yameen is accused of using US$1 million from a company implicated in the country's biggest corruption scandal.
The anti-money laundering watchdog informed police about the suspicious transaction.
The president has been dogged by graft allegations since he took office.
The MDP says a forensic accounting firm has validated previous reports about a US$1.5 billion scheme.
The Financial Secrecy Index, published by the Tax Justice Network, rates countries on their laws regarding the transparency of ownership structures, bank secrecy rules, financial reporting...
President Abdulla Yameen has described international money-laundering checks as “red tape” that inflicts disproportionate burdens on small economies.
Anti-corruption NGO Transparency Maldives has called for a broad and independent investigation into allegations raised in an Al Jazeera exposé about systemic corruption, abuse of power...
The government has dismissed an explosive Al Jazeera corruption exposé aired on Wednesday as defamatory and biased, accusing the Qatari broadcaster of advancing the opposition's agenda...
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 opposition has renewed calls for Yameen’s arrest, claiming it has new evidence he instructed the central bank to halt an inquiry into the Maldives’ biggest...
The main opposition Maldivian Democratic Party has called for an inquiry into the sudden hike in Maldives’ foreign reserves. The source of some US$400million is unknown,...
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...
