Adam Naseer Abubakuru was arrested with more than 6 million Rufiyaa in cash earlier this week.
According to Police, they have been keeping surveillance on the activities of some known drug dealers and they in fact have video evidence of Mr. Adam Naseer dealing in Addu, where he is married and settled.
Adam Naseer is from H. Reedhoomaage, aged 39, who is one of the main drug dealers in the country, according to police.
It is believed that this is the second of six drug kingpins whose identities President Mohamed Nasheed said was known to the government.
According to Sergeant Ahmed Shiyam, he was arrested in a special operation in Addu.
Police also raided his residence in Male’ where they found stashed in a cupboard, Mrf 5.39 million Rufiyaa, 43,400 US$, and Mrf 36,400 and some amount of US$’s inside his wife’s handbag. Adam Naseer was in fact arrested in November 2007 in a case related to 2kg of drugs. He was also taken to court for allegedly bribing the Police. His case was dismissed as being unfounded and he was released, according to Haveeru.
According to Police, he was living in Addu engaged in agriculture but he used it as a plot to hide what is now believed to be sacks of heroine, locally known as brown sugar.
Adam Naseer has been under police surveillence for some 7 months and according to intelligence, he is the main supplier to the 4 southern most Atolls.
Speaking to islanders of Dhevvadhoo on 2 May, President Nasheed said that while the identities of the top six drug dealers was known, the arrests would be viewed as politically motivated because they included members of the opposition.
Nasheed made the remark a week before the parliamentary elections; in the speech, the president spoke about the government's plans to rehabilitate drug offenders and stop drug smuggling.
Press secretary Mohamed Zuhair told Minivan News at the time, arresting the six would effectively stop the supply of narcotics into the Maldives.
Of the six, who were responsible for "budgeting, importing and distributing" drugs, some had fled the country, he said, and Interpol had been notified.
On the night of Nasheed's speech, People's Alliance leader Abdulla Yamin challenged the president to make the arrests.
"The president says he knows these six people and if he takes action against these six people, the problem will be erased even from Maldivian history…So we encourage the president. Finish the case," he said.
Yamin told Minivan News at the time, the president should arrest the six "for the sake of the whole nation".
Tough line
At a press conference held last year, Dr Hassan Saeed, presidential candidate and former attorney general, said the then government had deliberately avoided confronting the country’s widespread drug problem.
“Identifying drug traffickers is not a big problem,” said Saeed. “We are a population of 300,000, in which everyone knows everyone. We all know who has the expensive cars, luxury yachts, and so on.”
Since being appointed by Nasheed in November 2008, Police Commissioner Ahmed Faseeh has adopted a tough line on drugs and according to Shiyam, police have made more drug-related arrests this year than in previous years.
But critics argue the imprisonment of drug addicts without rehabilitation is futile.
According to government figures, 80 per cent of prisoners in Maafushi Jail are inside on drug-related offences. Possession of even a gram of narcotics carries a 25-year life sentence.
The incumbent government is in the process of revising the penal code and drug laws to ease pressure in jails and has made steps towards improving the ineffective drug rehabilitation services in the country, but for some, they have not moved quickly enough on this issue since coming to power.
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based on Minivan News and Haveeru reports
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I just cannot believe these Golhaabo thugs. They are now saying, don't politicise these drug dealer arrests.
How on earth can we not politicise it? It is Golhaabo who introduced heroine and other drugs to the last two generations of the Maldives during his dictatorship that lasted 30 years - That is a fact.
And, like Faseeh, the new commissioner said, police is now independent and can work with their own pace and discretion, no outside influence.
In his statement yesterday, Faseeh said, unlike in the past, police conducted all of their operations with “full independence and discretion, thoughtfully and faithfully.”
That mean, no Al-Hameed's, or Al-Yaameen's or anyone calling them to stop investigationg or to order release of a particular person, whom they had good relations or relationships with...
I will bet my last penny that these drug dealers are directly linked to Golhaabo's immediate family, I will not put it past Yameen for a starter!
Well done to the Maldives Police Service... you guys rock!
JUst arrest the following and this will be over.
1. Lt Shukoor and his two sons.
2. Abdullah Riyaaz
3. Abdul Gafoor - DRP ex Defense
4. Abdullah Yameen
5. Jangiya Nazim
6. Zakariyya Mansoor ( Naval commander)
7. Arif ( Lilly store)
we will see significant changes withing days. If Anni wants to watch these crooks, he must involve the Defense force to do it. The police too corrupted to catch the big fat cats.
I am looking forward to the day when I see in the headline; "Yameen arrested; proven to be one of the six drug barons!"
This guy has long been a criminal since his childhood. The government has been giving him protection and thats the reason why he could escape for all these days.
Mi meehaa ulubaandhaniko beyzaaru vane emeehaage drug network adhi gulhifaa thibey hurihaa enmen, eyru vara avaha this structure Dhivehi raage ge drug viyafaari yageen kurevidhaane .ehen dhuniyeyge gaumuthakugaa maru noonee umura jala lun e eeves mikahal kantha madhuko hutuma araa baaru.mikahal kanthaka nun sarukaarun harukashi gavaadhuaai gaanoon constitution gaa himanan vee. Euryn dhiveraaje in ves mikan uvidhaane.Mi meehaa ah kerigen adhabu dheefina ma ingeyne dhen hayyaru kuran vee kaakukan. Golhaabo, yamin, adam zahiru, fathuhulo,jangiyaa sobiru,Mohamed rasheed hussain,,mihen gos kureege etha sarukaaruge bodunne 30 aharu vandhen mi viyafaari ko, mulhi gaumu halaaku ko etha aaila thake mi vaba ah lee, adhi kuriah oi jeelu hlaako garagu kuree, ethibee nun ebaivaru nagaa, mussadhi ve , gteha alhaa, ehenmeehunge zuvaan dharin dhedhuniye in gelluvaalaifaa, hefi ethibee nun naacharingee jahaalajhaala veythuvedhiya 30 aharu, drug vikka meehunn aeves hamdharudhe eh ovegene nuvaa ne ranghalhu sarukaarakun, hukumakee hama umurugaa enme dhuvahe othas jalun neregen nuvaane, emeehun miechethi vikaa ka rashuthere dhookogen thibenee hama mikama loabikuraa meehu ekani, adhi sarukaarugaaves mikam luidheynee gaumu halaakukura thibey baye!
How about Mavota Shareef saying that this man was an MDP activist when Mavota was in MDP??
IS MAVOTA SHAREEF TELLING THE TRUTH? WAS THIS MAN AN MDP ACTIVIST? OR IS HE JUST JEALOUS OF PRESIDENT NASHEED KEEPING ON HIS WORD TO CATCH THE SIX KINGPINS?
ANY BODY CAN CLARIFY THIS, PLEASE?
I wonder what the Police do with the confiscated money. Does anyone have any idea? Does the government add it to the budget?
Heroin rather than heroine I think...
So what even if he was an MDP activist? Mavota Shareef will be used to the notion that maumoon's supporters are above the law. This is not how President Nasheed's government function. No matter what family or what party a person belongs to no one will be above the law.
Why are Mausoom, Mavota and people so concerend about the drug arrest and not the drug problem. It does not get into their thick head that just becuase the police and the president know of the drug lords, they need hard and real eivdence that can convict them in a court of law before arresting them. This is not maumoon's regime where you arrest a person without any evidence and then toture him until he confesses.
6 months and the guy will walk free... I can bet my ass on it...
still think this guy is as mule, use him to track whose using him...who'se behind his operation
maadhamaa meene dhookoh laane..... emme furathama islaahu kuranvee court thah .... miee mihaaru hurihaa massala akee,,,
6 months and the guy will walk free... I can bet my ass on it...
me too
This is guy was not on 6 , this is a small person compared to big 6....
It was endherimaage Abbas who started brown sugar bsuiness via foreigner.
Ilyas too did drug business , resort owners too , to sell it to guests ...
so this is bigger than most think, i have been in the government for over 40 years ...
so many mysterious businesses running here , unless personal taxation doesn't come , there is no way of finding the exact drug network and their beneficiaries.
By drug i did not mean hash , as it's been always used widely in the Maldives by top brass government officials and key figures.
So better get rid of demand for Heroine , cocaine etc.
Regards
Juha (Press Secretary)
4:27 PM, Its a wast of time and energy to clarify the so called facts, sprayed out through Mavota Shareef's mouth.
Just areeast the following.
1. Adam Zahir ( Former Commisioner if Police)
2. Kane Sing (Always Happy House)
3. Assad (A police Office and MP Meduhenveyru Asims Brother)
4. Red wave Saleem
5. Saffa (Lonumidilhige)
6. Abdhulla Riyaz
7.Arif (lily)
9. Abudulla Yameen
10.Jagiyaa Nazim
only operations which they can do is catch these crooks, but who knows how many are there? who knows how many people are involved in current government? who knows?
depressing thing is that, the amount of money siezed from the suspect shows the picture to current government, and if they are serious (police) they wound't have to take 7 months to catch one crooks like that, in this tiny nation not only police all of the security forces need to be inovlved in it.
or else get ready to destroy comming 2 two gernations, simply we know that we have huge demand, and there are people who depsrately need money to get rich in any way, and we have millions of people around us to deliver these because of the profit:
please sombody tell me how to stop this, i haven't got any clue GOD help us ( please help us to getrid of emoral lawyers who desperate get money even defending pedophiles and drug traffickers) insha allah ( congatulations maldives police)
great work president nashyd,keep it up.This is how great leaders capaign for leadership with honour.Last time in the presidential elections I VOTED MAUMOON & UPTO DATE,BUT FROM TOMORROW ONWARDS I & MY FAMILY WILL VOTE MDP CANDIDATES.Catch the remaining drug kings.We truly regret for not voting Anni & MDP.
Mavota ehen bunee J vegen, eyru Reeko, Maria noonee Afeef basnaahaigen magumacchah nikunna irah bidialhuvaigen ayyaru kiuraane, dhen mikahala serious drug massalaeh MDP ge activist inn kurinama keevegenbaa hayyaru nukureee. Mavota ah kiyeykukiyee eccheh mihaaru neyngenee dho. dhen lalala
Mavota ah vote nulee kujjaa :)
Mavota ah ah MDP ge activistun kan ingi keevegen e muhimmukanthah nukuree, Mavota eheree kuverivefaa majilis ge Addu member akah hure eyna e kuree varah bodu gaanoonee kusheh, eyru jeheyne ekamah e haisiiyathun action nagan. ingi hure drug deal kuraabakah Mavota help veetha, "Piece" kolheh eyna ah ves libuneetha hehehe
please offer DEATH PENALTY to the drug dealers and the drug abusers.
I agree with the above comment, to arrest the named 7 people. These are some of the biggest nut crackers in our community.
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