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Maldives Vice-President, Ahmed Adeeb Arrested & Charged Over Plot To Kill President

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Maldives Vice President, Ahmed Adeeb was Saturday arrested on suspicion of links to an alleged plot to assassinate the country’s president, Abdulla Yameen.

Home affairs minister Umar Naseer said Ahmed Adeeb was arrested on a charge of high treason in connection with the blast on the presidential boat last month.

Adeeb, who had only assumed the vice presidency in July, is being held at a detention centre at an island near the capital Malé, the home minister added.

“VP Adheeb under arrest and held in Dhoonidhoo Detention,” Naseer said on Twitter, using a different spelling of the vice-president’s name. “Charges: high treason.”

Police also arrested three of Adeeb’s supporters on Saturday. Security has been tightened in the capital with police and soldiers in riot gear deployed on the streets.

Police spokesman Ismail Ali said Adeeb was arrested when he returned from an official visit to China.

Maldivian police confirmed that his detention was linked to the investigation into the 28 September blast on board Yameen’s speedboat.

“Vice-president Ahmed Adeeb has been arrested under a court warrant for the investigation into the explosion aboard the presidential speedboat,” Maldivian police said on Twitter and an official website.

The government said a bomb targeting Yameen was placed under his usual seat on the boat. The president escaped injury because he was not sitting there. The first lady and two aides were hurt.

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