Aa. Rasdhoo Court has remanded Parliament Speaker Mohamed Nasheed’s brother Nazim Abdul Sattar in custody for seven days.
Nazim was arrested on Thursday in connection to a video leaked on social media that showed a man believed to be Nazim engaging in sexual acts with a 25-year-old man, MD Alamgiri. He was arrested while at a resort in Alif Alif atoll, and he was taken to Rasdhoo Magistrate Court to decide on his remand.
When the video first came out, Nazim was summoned to the police station and questioned regarding the matter. His passport was later withheld in connection to the case.
Similar videos of several other people engaging in sexual acts with the same Bangladeshi man were leaked one after the other, including a 30-minute clip of a Drug Enforcement Department police officer. The police have been investigating the case and recently concluded the preliminary stage of the investigation. As per the police, enough evidence to incriminate those seen in the videos has been collected, and a special operation has been launched to arrest those involved in the videos. The police Thursday said a 35-year-old local man and a 45-year-old local man were arrested in the operation.
