The correctional service has denied rumors that former president and opposition leader Maumoon Abdul Gayoom is being kept in prison on the orders of President Abdulla Yameen.

After opposition coalition candidate Ibrahim Mohamed Solih’s election win on Sunday, some lawmakers and a former police commissioner were released.

While the criminal court on Monday night brought Maumoon to review his case along with the other now-free prisoners, the ailing 80-year-old statesman was neither freed nor transferred to house arrest, as his family has repeatedly requested.

Denying rumors that President Yameen was behind it, correctional service spokesperson Ahmed Lugman told RaajjeMV on Wednesday that they do not want to disclose any information regarding Maumoon’s case at this time.

While the medical board has approved Maumoon for a house arrest transfer, he remains in prison.

Maumoon’s family has recently met with president-elect Ibrahim Mohamed Solih over his imprisonment and his daughter, Yumna Maumoon, in a tweet expressed concern that he remains behind bars.

Maumoon is serving a one-and-a-half-year prison sentence on obstruction for refusing to hand over his mobile phone to the police.