The Ministry of Finance directed Bank of Maldives to hold an extraordinary general meeting on 21 September to appoint members to its board of directors, after senior administration officials alleged the bank's Sunday dollar-restriction announcement was part of an attempted coup. President Muizzu repeated the coup allegation and the Maldives Police Service is investigating, though no arrests have been made.
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BML has now scheduled an EGM for 21 September after a request from the Ministry last Saturday, the bank confirmed.
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What was done, anyone with common sense would know that all these dots are connected, what was done is, just as Shiyam [Minister of Fisheries and Ocean Resources] also pointed out, an attempted coup, by those who did what they did [on Sund…
Once I found out that the decision announced yesterday [Sunday] was going to be issued, I personally was working hard, along with the relevant ministers, [to prevent the action] but they did not heed anything I had said,
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