MALE: The first elected president of the Maldives risks arrest after boycotting the scheduled start of his criminal trial and violating a travel ban, the government said Tuesday.
Mohamed Nasheed had been due to go on trial on Monday on abuse of power charges in connection with the events that led to his toppling in February.
But his case was adjourned, without a new date being set, after Nasheed failed to turn up at court. He was then seen sailing out of the archipelago's main island in defiance of an order to stay in the capital.
"The court will issue him another summons," presidential media secretary Masood Imad told AFP.
"After the second summons, if he does not comply, the standard procedure is they (the court) will instruct the police to bring him in."
"I don't think the charges are correct," Nasheed told reporters at the jetty.
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