Former President Abdulla Yameen has been summonsed at the Criminal Court over the charges of money laundering that the state raised against him in early February.

President Yameen was summonsed for 1:30pm on Monday and has attended the Criminal Court for a prelimenary hearing in the case.

The chrages against him carry a sentence of 15 years, and a fine amounts to three times of the sum involved. 

Lawyer Mahfooz Saeeed spoke to RaajjeTV on Monday, and said he has full confidence in the Prosecutor General's Office and that the hearing 

The charges against him result from an investigation into a sum of one million dollars deposited to his account from a company linked to the largest embezzlement scheme yet uncovered in the Maldives.

The police on 15th December, interrogated the former president had involved himself in financial activity illegal for a person in his position as head of state. Yameen says he deposited the million in an account specified by the Anti-Corruption Commission, once he ‘understood’ that the funds were from the embezzlement scandal.

President Yameen’s minister at the President’s Office, Azima Shakoor has been interrogated over aiding him in the money laundering charges. Azima, formerly attorney general, was Minister of Legal Office during Yameen’s tenure.