MALE, Maldives - Abdulla Yameen, former president of Maldives, has been found guilty of money laundering and accepting a bribe and has been sentenced to 11 years in prison by a criminal court.
The Criminal Court of Maldives, which gave Yameen a seven-year sentence for money laundering and four years for accepting a bribe, also ordered him to pay a $5 million fine.
Yameen, who headed the Indian Ocean archipelago nation from 2013 to 2018, was found guilty of accepting money for leasing an island owned by the government.
In 2019, Yameen was also found guilty of money laundering and sentenced to five years in prison, but the Supreme Court overturned the verdict two years later.
In 2018, he lost in the presidential elections to current President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih.
Yameen has been accused of corruption, silencing the media and persecuting political opponents during his time in office.
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