Resorts accused in Maldives coup

MALE, the Maldives: The former president ousted in a coup last week has accused resort owners of plotting to overthrow him in reaction to his vision of a free-market paradise.

Mohamed Nasheed said some owners of the Maldives' beach resorts financed the coup because they resented competition for contracts and fixed direct taxes.

He said his own intelligence officers confirmed their involvement in the coup in a marriage of convenience with Muslim extremists.

They had led street protests against his government's decision to allow massage and health spas to proliferate.

''I was ousted for bringing a Western conservative vision to the Maldives,'' he said.

After he came to power in 2008, advised by a team of British Conservative Party campaigners,

 Mr Nasheed privatised the country's main airport, introduced compulsory private health insurance, and imposed a tax system to make the country self-reliant.

''The coup was financed by resort owners … not just one but many,'' he said. ''They liked the old order of corruption. We were rocking the boat, taxing them. ''

Telegraph, London

Eventhough Tlegraph reports this, This is a bige false information. No Maldivian came to the road when President Nasheed asked all the resorts close the Spas. Under present circumstances most of UK and allies are spreading 100 percent wrong information about Maldives and and its present situation.

When the government asked the resorts to close the Spas everyone knew it was another stunt by  panicked government and is a  political drama, since government has no right and no authority to close them just keeping eyes blind folded.

raajjenews team

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