COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – A presidential official in the Maldives says police have arrested a judge and a former prosecutor general for issuing an arrest warrant for the country's president without the police requesting one, in the latest political turmoil in the Indian Ocean archipelago.
Ibrahim Hussain Shihab, a spokesman at the president's office, says former Prosecutor General Muhthaz Muhsin and Judge Ahmed Nihan were arrested Sunday night.
The warrant was issued in relation to a corruption allegation against President Yameen Abdul Gayoom.
A government statement said police found out about the arrest warrant Sunday morning when a group tried to hand over the document to police officials.
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