The state has claimed at a hearing in Criminal Court today that according to the information contained in the pen drive confiscated from former Defence Minister Mohamed Nazim’s apartment, the plans to attack senior officials of the government were “funded by Villa”.
Lawyer of the state, in the hearing held on today against Nazim for possession of firearms, said that police investigation had recently identified from the information in the pen drive found from a bag in a cupboard kept inside the bedroom of Nazim, that Nazim, under his leadership, had planned for individual and joint tasks funded by Villaa to attack senior officials of the government.
Lawyer said that a pistol and three bullets have been found inside a cupboard kept near the bed of Nazim’s bedroom on 17 January at around 3:50 a.m. in a raid conducted by police under court order.
He has been charged over that case with reference to Article 2 (b) and under Article 13 (a) of the Import Prohibition Act.
When Nazim was given opportunity to answer, he dined the charges and said that he needs a lawyer to go ahead with the trial.
Today’s hearing was held in the presence of his lawyer Maumoon Hameed. However, Maumoon Hameed was not given chance to speak as a lawyer at the hearing because of incomplete formalities to appoint him as the lawyer.
Nazim’s trial is carried out by a bench of three judges. They are; Judge Abdul Baaree Yoosuf, who leads the bench, Judge Abdulla Didi, and Judge Sujau Usmaan.