Former city councillor Zaidul Ameen was transferred to house arrest on Monday.
No further details of the trial were disclosed.
Ameen, who formerly represented ruling Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM) in the Male City Council had been accused of blackmailing top government officials and was taken into custody on January 13.
Ameen faces three separate charges including illegally obtaining and disclosure of confidential information, and obstruction of rule of law.
The penalty for all three charges under the constitution is jail time of four months and 24 days.
He has also been slapped with a travel ban which prevents him from travelling anywhere outside the capital Male.
Ameen is an ousted PPM leader Maumoon Abdul Gayoom loyalist, and had backed the elder Gayoom after the split in the party.
On Sunday, former defence minister Mohamed Nazim, and religiously conservative Adhaalath Party’s leader Sheikh Imran Abdulla was also granted temporary house arrest for the month of Ramadan.
