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Pres commission confident of solving missing journo mystery

The presidential commission tasked with investigating high-profile criminal cases in the archipelago remains confident of getting much needed answers over missing journalist Ahmed Rilwan, its chief said Saturday.

The Maldives Independent reporter Rilwan went missing four years ago and his disappearance remains arguably the biggest unsolved mystery in the archipelago.

The Commission on Investigation of Murders and Enforced Disappearances was established by incumbent president Ibrahim Mohamed Solih to investigate high-profile cases last year.

"So happy to be doing what I am doing. Confident of getting answers to all those questions we asked on 19th August 2014," the commission chief and former Attorney General Husnu Suood said on Twitter.

During the last press conference, the commission had said Rilwan's case was linked to the gruesome murder of a renowned local blogger in the capital Male.

Blogger Yameen Rasheed had been hacked to death in the stairwell of his own home in April 2017.

The commission had vowed to complete the investigation by April next year.