Jailed former president Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayyoom has been summoned to the police station to be questioned regarding an investigation they are conducting.
Speaking to AVAS, President Yameen’s attorney, former Vice President Dr Mohamed Jameel Ahmed said President Yameen will be summoned to the police headquarters on Thursday.
It is unclear regarding which case the former president, who is serving a five year jail sentence at Maafushi Prison for money laundering, is being investigated. Jameel alleged a new case is being pursued against his client as the president's legal team had been successful in maintaining that the money laundering conviction against him was a political conviction during the appeal trial currently ongoing at the High Court.
Former President Yameen was accused of defying the agreement between himself and the Anti-Corruption Commission, which stipulated the former president to move funds in his Maldives Islamic Bank (MIB) account that are suspected of having been laundered, into an escrow account set up between the two parties.
Failing to do so, and moving the funds in question into an investment account, the former president deposited funds from another source into the escrow account. The key witness against the former president during the trial was former Vice President Ahmed Adeeb Abdul Ghafoor, who admitted to having been involved in the corruption.
Finding President Yameen guilty of the charges levied against him, the Criminal Court sentenced the former president to five years in jail and ordered him to pay US$ five million to the state after being found guilty of money laundering on November 28 last year.
