No complaints from jailed ex-president: prisons' commissioner
18 މެއި 2020 | ހޯމަ 21:47He is doing well
Former President Abdulla Yameen during his sentence hearing
Jailed former President Abdulla Yameen is doing well and has no complaints, says the Commissioner of Prisons.
Ahmed Mohamed stated this during an interview on RaajjeTV’s Covid-19 coverage on Monday night, stressing that there are special procedures for the treatment of former presidents and other such officials serving prison sentences.
While Yameen’s Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM) has expressed concern over him not being transferred to house arrest amid the Covid-19 pandemic, despite his health condition, the prisons’ commissioner revealed that there have been no complaints from the former president.
Yameen was convicted on money-laundering charges on 28th November 2019, after being found guilty of laundering USD through the state-owned Maldives Marketing and Public Relations Corporation (MMPRC) via a private company SoF, during his presidency. He was sentenced to five years in prison, and fined USD five million to be paid within in six months.
