Ahmed Adeeb

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Charge:	Conspiracy to commit murder
Sentence:	15 years
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Year Crime:	2015
Year Convicted:	2018
Year Cleared:	2019
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Maldives
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated (Not released due to other charges.)
Summary of Case:	"Ahmed Adeeb was wrongly convicted of conspiring to murder former Maldives President Yameen Abdul Gayoom. Adeeb was a confidant of Gayoom, whose speedboat exploded in 2015, injuring Gayoom's wife. After his conviction in the Criminal Court Adeeb was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Adeeb appealed. An investigation by the U.S.' Federal Bureau of Investigation found no evidence of explosives on the boat. On May 20, 2019 Maldives' High Court annulled Adeeb's conviction on the basis of insufficient evidence of his guilt, and ordered a new investigation of the assassination attempt on Gayoom. Adeeb remained in custody serving an 18 year sentence for a separate conviction of public corruption."
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Innocence Proved By:	"On May 20, 2019 Maldives' High Court annulled Adeeb's conviction on the basis of insufficient evidence of his guilt, and ordered a new investigation of the assassination attempt on Gayoom."
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Information Source 1:	"Former vice president of Maldives freed from case of Yameen's assassination attempt, Devdiscourse.com, May 20, 2019"
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Ahmed Adeeb

Charge:

Conspiracy to commit murder

Sentence:

15 years

Years Imprisoned:

Year Crime:

2015

Year Convicted:

2018

Year Cleared:

2019

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Maldives

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated (Not released due to other charges.)

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"On May 20, 2019 Maldives' High Court annulled Adeeb's conviction on the basis of insufficient evidence of his guilt, and ordered a new investigation of the assassination attempt on Gayoom."

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Male

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"Former vice president of Maldives freed from case of Yameen's assassination attempt, Devdiscourse.com, May 20, 2019"

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https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/law-order/530916-former-vice-president-of-maldives-freed-from-case-of-yameens-assassination-attempt

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