MALE, Maldives — Police in the Maldives said they questioned the country’s defeated former strongman president over complaints of alleged illegal financial transactions on Saturday, a day after they froze bank accounts with millions of dollars. Police said in a statement that they found transactions of big sums of money through accounts opened by Yameen Abdul Gayoom over five years of his presidency. On Friday, they said accounts with nearly $6.5 million in both U.S. dollars and Maldivian currency had been frozen pending further investigations. He said the money he received ahead of the election was funds deposited into his lawfully declared campaign accounts. Yameen ruled Maldives from 2013 until he lost an election to Ibrahim Mohamed Solih in September.

Source: Washington Post December 15, 2018 16:07 UTC