Attorney General Mohamed Anil said the government had received information the Supreme Court was preparing to fire Yameen, but such a move would be illegal and resisted by government law enforcement authorities. The crisis poses the biggest threat to President Abdulla Yameen’s control of the Maldives since he took power in 2013. Mohamed had told Reuters he would abide by a separate Supreme Court ruling ordering the reinstatement of 12 legislators who defected from Yameen’s ruling party last year. He told a party meeting on Saturday he “did not expect the Supreme Court ruling at all”. They were also inquiring about whether family members of Supreme Court Chief Justice Abdulla Saeed and Supreme Court Justice Ali Hameed, who handed down last week’s ruling, were involved in the apartment purchases, police said.

Source: bd News24 February 04, 2018 18:00 UTC