Deaths and Disappearances Commission Offers MVR 500 Thousand Reward for Information

A reward of MVR 500, 000 is being offered to anyone who can offer any information about a knife used in the kidnapping of Ahmed Rilwan Abdullah.

Rilwan, a journalist, had been forced into a car near the No. 21 Flat in Hulhumalé, and the knife had fallen to the ground in the struggle that had ensued during the kidnapping.

The Presidential Commission on Deaths and Disappearances released a statement which offered the reward for any reliable information that could be given pertaining to the knife that had been found in the scene of the crime and has since been taken into police custody as evidence, and is suspected as having been used in the kidnapping.

The Commission had promised to respect the anonymity of the sources of the information offered. The Commission has invited any informants to either visit the Commission’s offices in person, or to call them by phone.

The Commission had previously looked into Rilwan’s disappearance and had published a report. The report had claimed that Rilwan had been taken out to sea on a boat and had had his throat cut before his body had been dumped into the sea. The Commission had failed to provide proof of any of the claims made in the report, and the report has come under criticism from Rilwan’s family.

The Commission’s president, Husnu al Suood, had been appointed to the Supreme Court soon after the report had been published. The work of the Commission had come to a halt until a new president was recently appointed.