25 years for cannabis trafficking from an Ensis block in Hulhumalé
On 10 September 2026 the Criminal Court sentenced Mohamed Shareef of GDh. Vaadhoo to 25 years in prison and a MVR 100,000 fine for trafficking cannabis found in June 2020 at an Ensis Fisheries accommodation block in Hulhumalé. After remand credit he has 23 years and six months left to serve; a co-accused's case remained undecided.
On Monday 10 September 2026 the Criminal Court sentenced Mohamed Shareef of Asrafeege, GDh. Vaadhoo,
to 25 years in prison and a fine of MVR 100,000 for trafficking cannabis.[1]After counting time
already spent on remand, the court said he had 23 years and six months left to serve.[1]
Police Intelligence and the Drug Enforcement Department had searched an Ensis Fisheries
accommodation and maintenance block in Hulhumalé on 14 June 2020 and arrested Shareef and
Afsal Rasheed of GA. Kolamaafushi.[1][2]Edition.mv said officers found 6.5 kg of drugs hidden in
various places; an earlier Atoll Times report on the same case put the cannabis at 6.8 kg.[1][2]
The court said fingerprints on a pipe where drugs were hidden and on a digital scale matched
Shareef’s, and that video showed him buying bottles of the same brand as containers used at the
site, while finding no evidence linking him to the other drugs found there.[1]Shareef had been
released from remand in 2021 and was sought by police in April 2026 after missing sentencing
hearings; Afsal’s case had not been decided when Shareef was sentenced.[1][2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Cannabis
6.5 kg
Prison
25 years
Agency type
Police, Court
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (6.5 kg)
Activity
Trafficking
Setting
Prison
Case stage
Sentenced
Sentence
Prison, Fine
Sources
Editionedition.mv25-year prison sentence for 6kg drug trafficking conviction
The Criminal Court sentenced Abdulla Faseeh to 50 years and a MVR 200,000 fine on 1 October 2026 on two trafficking counts. He had been stopped at Velana airport on 7 October 2024 with 252.17 g of cannabis and 23.60 g of diamorphine taped to his legs before a domestic flight; the court imposed life on each count, calculated at 25 years, and the terms added up to 50 years.
Maldives Criminal Court sentenced Canadian Scott William Armstrong to 25 years, treated as life imprisonment, for trafficking about 26.88 grams of cannabis found in his Maalhos guesthouse room in July 2019. He pleaded not guilty, was fined MVR 100,000, and was credited for five months and nine days already spent in detention.
Arrested 1Charged 1Cannabis 26.88 gPrison 25 years
Maldives Criminal Court sentenced 46-year-old Ali Imran to life in prison and fined him MVR100,000 over 1,131.2 grams of cannabis. Police had caught him with the drugs hidden under his motorcycle seat at Malé’s commercial harbour in November 2012.
The Criminal Court in Malé sentenced Ahmed Rasheed, 43, to 25 years in prison and a 100,000-rufiyaa fine for trafficking cannabis on 20 March 2013. Police had arrested him the previous May with 1,152.51 grams found in a teashop can and his office locker.
