The Attorney General’s (AG) Office has details of ‘black money’ trails into the Maldives during former president Abdulla Yameen’s tenure, says coalition leader Mohamed Nasheed.
Nasheed, a former Maldivian president himself, said in an interview with RaajjeTV on Thursday that he uncovered details of illicit cash transfer into the Maldives himself.
Nasheed said he had received two mobile phones and a laptop during his self-imposed exile in the United Kingdom, after a 13-year prison conviction which has now been quashed.
An Al Jazeera exposé in 2016 revealed a money a laundering operation of over USD 1.5 billion in the Maldives, which implicated high-level members of Yameen’s government.
Nasheed also said that during his tenure, his government launched an audit of state-run companies, including the State Trading Organization and Yameen’s alleged embezzlement of USD 800 million through the company while he was directing it.
The audit stopped after Nasheed lost office in 2012.
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