Colombo: The Maldives executive is looking for world help to search out hundreds of thousands of greenbacks allegedly siphoned off by former president Abdulla Yameen who faces embezzlement and money laundering charges, officers stated Friday.
Maldivian diplomats stated authorities within the Indian Ocean archipelago were in talks with foreign mavens as part of a police investigation towards the chief who lost power ultimate September.
"Police have now completed their investigations. The Prosecutor General can now formally charge the former president," Aslam Shakir, spokesman for the Maldives embassy in Colombo, informed AFP.
He stated police investigations had discovered proof linking Yameen and his justice minister Azima Shakoor to the theft of state finances and money laundering.
In December, courts within the vacationer paradise froze some $6.five million in accounts allegedly connected to Yameen who suffered a surprise defeat to Mohamed Ibrahim Solih in elections in September.
Shakir stated hundreds of thousands of greenbacks could be stashed in a foreign country and talks were underway with foreign entities to repatriate any cash discovered. He didn't identify the international locations concerned.
"We are getting foreign financial forensic help. We are also getting the expertise of others in connection with several cases of disappearances of people during Yameen's regime," Shakir stated.
An anti-establishment journalist Mohamed Rilwan vanished in August, 2014 and is broadly believed to had been abducted by figures connected to Yameen's executive.
Yameen, who have been in power since 2013, jailing or forcing into exile lots of his combatants, has additionally been accused of receiving close to $1.five million in illicit payments all over his failed bid for re-election.
The country's financial authority lodged a police complaint over alleged donations made into a non-public account held by Yameen within the runup to the polls.
The former strongman president, who has been questioned but no longer detained, has denied the allegations.
Yameen stays politically energetic. But since his downfall, virtually all key dissidents have returned to the country and been cleared of convictions towards them.
Maldivian diplomats stated authorities within the Indian Ocean archipelago were in talks with foreign mavens as part of a police investigation towards the chief who lost power ultimate September.
"Police have now completed their investigations. The Prosecutor General can now formally charge the former president," Aslam Shakir, spokesman for the Maldives embassy in Colombo, informed AFP.
He stated police investigations had discovered proof linking Yameen and his justice minister Azima Shakoor to the theft of state finances and money laundering.
In December, courts within the vacationer paradise froze some $6.five million in accounts allegedly connected to Yameen who suffered a surprise defeat to Mohamed Ibrahim Solih in elections in September.
Shakir stated hundreds of thousands of greenbacks could be stashed in a foreign country and talks were underway with foreign entities to repatriate any cash discovered. He didn't identify the international locations concerned.
"We are getting foreign financial forensic help. We are also getting the expertise of others in connection with several cases of disappearances of people during Yameen's regime," Shakir stated.
An anti-establishment journalist Mohamed Rilwan vanished in August, 2014 and is broadly believed to had been abducted by figures connected to Yameen's executive.
Yameen, who have been in power since 2013, jailing or forcing into exile lots of his combatants, has additionally been accused of receiving close to $1.five million in illicit payments all over his failed bid for re-election.
The country's financial authority lodged a police complaint over alleged donations made into a non-public account held by Yameen within the runup to the polls.
The former strongman president, who has been questioned but no longer detained, has denied the allegations.
Yameen stays politically energetic. But since his downfall, virtually all key dissidents have returned to the country and been cleared of convictions towards them.
Maldives seeks foreign aid to find cash linked to ousted Yameen
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