Police on Saturday denied receiving an official complaint into an alleged attempt to buy-off a top government lawmaker.
Ruling Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM) deputy parliamentary group leader Ibrahim Falah had told reporters last week that the opposition had offered him MVR32 million to sign the censure motion against parliament speaker Abdulla Maseeh.
Police however, said the Inguraidhoo had not filed an official complaint over the bribery attempt.
PPM has continued accuse the now united opposition of "buying off" lawmakers to back its fresh move to unseat the speaker.
The opposition had garnered the signatures of as many as 10 government lawmakers to file the motion.
After the now opposition coalition in March had filed a second motion to unseat Maseeh, the government had engineered an amendment to the parliament rules of procedure raising the number of lawmaker signatures required to file a censure motion against the speaker and his deputy from 15 to 42.
The opposition had filed the third censure motion against Maseeh with 45 lawmakers which included the 10 from the ruling party.
The ruling party however, has refused to allow the lawmakers to leave saying that their requests can only be processed after their respective disciplinary hearing are concluded before getting the Supreme Court to back a move to disqualify MPs who defect, violate party whip-lines or are removed from their respective parties.
As the result of the Supreme Court ruling, most of the rebel lawmakers stand to lose their seats if they go through with quitting the party.