Police probe threats against Minister Khaleel by Sri Lankan national

Maldives Police Service has launched a probe into threats against Maldivian Foreign Minister Dr. Abdulla Khaleel by a Sri Lankan national via the social media platform, X.

The issue had come to light amid an official visit to Sri Lanka by Minister Khaleel, who is currently in the country’s capital, Colombo.

The Sri Lankan national, Nadheesh Perera, has been making various kinds of threats against Minister Khaleel via X, including death threats.

@abkhaleel in Sri Lanka death can come in the form as a disguised lawyer in the court house!

So be careful when you are at the hotel room death can come to you in a form of a room boy or waiter.

Concern citizen of the foreign minister of Maldives https://t.co/by64xLNN4q pic.twitter.com/Kdv90nkQ13

— Nadeesh Perera (@NadeeshSL) February 19, 2025

Police, in a message to the media, confirmed the issue had come to their attention, and as such, have launched an investigation into the matter in collaboration with the relevant authorities.

Many have raised questions about the safety and security of Minister Khaleel amid these threats.

Sun has learned that Perera is an individual who has been permanently deported from the Maldives. Prior to that, he had been residing in the Maldives and was married to a Maldivian.

Perera has published a lot of posts on his X account, tagging Minister Khaleel and the Controller General of Immigration Shamman Waheed.

As a father of a 2 year old child who misses his daughter for 9 months is an unbearable pain, I am fighting everyday to get access to my daughter who are living in Maldives and the Maldivian tyranic government is preventing me to see my daughter by using tyrannic Immigration… pic.twitter.com/N9Y0aLguVQ

— Nadeesh Perera (@NadeeshSL) February 20, 2025

In his post, he expressed “unbearable pain” for having been separated from his two-year-old daughter residing in the Maldives for nine months at present following his deportation. Perera alleged that he had been deprived of his rights to enter the Maldives as a father of a Maldivian child unlawfully.