Conspiracy theories aplenty over Bangladeshi expatriate’s murder

By Hilath Rasheed  Expatriate workers on August 23 work on raising the breakwater of Male’s eastern seawall which protects the crowded capital hosting a third of Maldives’ local population. (Haveeru Photo: Millzero) MALE, August 26, 2007 (Haveeru News Service) – Friday is the only holiday for the 60,000 or so expatriate workers, mostly semi or unskilled laborers, working in construction and tourism industry of Maldives. Due to lack of entertainment, like most locals, the expatriates usually get relief by hanging out with friends in outdoor areas of the crowded capital Male.  Like most of my friends, I normally do not pay...

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Fellow Bangladeshi Confesses To Homosexual Relationship, Attack On Mogul: Police

MALE, August 23, 2007 (Haveeru News Service) -- A Bangladeshi worker in Kulhudhuffushi has confessed during the Police investigation to attacking and injuring Mogul Hussain, whose brutally mutilated corpse had been discovered on Monday, the Maldives Police Service said. According to the Maldives Police Service website, Shafeeg-ul Islam, 45, had confessed to attacking 28-year-old Mogul and had also said that they were in a homosexual relationship. Both of them had lived in Moony Manzil house in Kulhudhuffushi and worked at the shop called Kodi. Shafeeg has been living in Kulhudhuffushi for one and half years now and Mogul had arrived on the island six months before. Mogul’s corpse, when it had been discovered near the island’s football grounds last Monday, had been brutally mutilated. He...

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The investigation team has found significant evidence indicating a connection between the expatriate taken into police custody on suspicion to the murder of the expatriate in Kulhudhufushi

The investigation team has found significant evidence indicating a connection between the expatriate taken into police custody on suspicion to the murder of the expatriate in Kulhudhufushi The investigation team has found significant evidence indicating a connection between the expatriate taken into police custody on suspicion to the murder of the expatriate in Kulhudhufushi. In the interrogation the expatriate has confessed to having a homosexual relationship with the deceased and inflicting injuries on him. The two Maldivians who were taken into police custody were released because so far there has been no evidence found indicating their...

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