{"id":75412,"date":"2019-11-29T11:07:36","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T11:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=75412"},"modified":"2019-11-29T11:07:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T11:07:37","slug":"maldives-former-president-abdulla-yameen-sentenced-to-5-yrs-in-jail-for-money-laundering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/maldives-former-president-abdulla-yameen-sentenced-to-5-yrs-in-jail-for-money-laundering\/","title":{"rendered":"Maldives&#8217; former president Abdulla Yameen sentenced to 5 yrs in jail for money laundering"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Maldives, former president Abdulla Yameen has been found guilty of money laundering and sentenced to five years in prison today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The five judge bench of criminal court unanimously concurred that Yameen is guilty on the charge of laundering state funds for personal gain. He was accused of  over 1 million dollars deposit in his bank account by a company that was used to channel resort acquisition fees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bench ruled that former President while in office, violated an agreement signed with the anti-corruption commission to hold the money in an escrow account. The court also fined the 60-year-old opposition leader with  5 million US dollars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Opposition supporters protested near the court carrying placards condemning the trial as politically motivated and accusing the government of hijacking the judiciary. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Maldives, former president Abdulla Yameen has been found guilty of money laundering and sentenced to five years in prison today. The five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75414,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75412\/revisions\/75414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}