Police: 18 passports detained over homosexuality allegations

Maldives Police Services has revealed that 18 passports have been detained in connection to homosexuality.

However, no further details were provided regarding this by the Police.

A string of videos of men engaging in sexual relations with Alamgiri has been leaked from June onwards. 

The police have previously stated that cases pertaining to homosexuality is being investigated as serious matters.

In this regard, a prominent lawyer and Parliament Speaker Mohamed Nasheed’s younger brother Nazim Sattar, a police officer working in the Drug Enforcement Department, Abdul Rahman Rafeeu, and former Nolhivaram MP Mohamed Nasheed (Colonel Nasheed) have also been arrested for engaging in sexual relations with Alamgiri.

More recently, individuals in various government offices and other institutions are known to have engaged in homosexual relations with Alamgiri. This includes a muezzin and the Senior Executive Director at the National Centre for the Holy Quran Ibrahim Rafiu – who has been since terminated.

Sun has learned that over 100 people engaged in homosexual relations with Alamgiri.