Police probe allegations by Zaidhul Ameen

Maldives Police Service has announced its Professional Standard Command is investigating the allegations directed against the institution by Male’ City councilman Zaidhul Ameen in his statement.

The announcement was made via the institution’s official Twitter account this Thursday.

Zaidhul Ameen issued the statement in question on Wednesday after he was transferred from house arrest back to police detention.

In the statement, Zaidhul Ameen said that despite being suspected of blackmail, the police had not been able to say who his alleged victim was and had not found any evidence to support the suspicion from his mobile phone or laptop.

He said that after the police failed to find any incriminating evidence against him, investigative officers repeatedly press him to provide a statement saying the missing hard disks from the headquarters of ruling Progressive Party of Maldives were taken by its leader, the former

Maldivian President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, and that Maumoon was conspiring against the current administration.

Zaidhul Ameen said that the investigative officers said that his statement was vital for Maumoon’s arrest, and repeatedly threatened him that he would have to share the same fate as the activist Shumba Gong and lay incarcerated with no trial.

He was a member of the faction of the ruling Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM) aligned with Maumoon before he was kicked out.