Govt approves signing Convention on Cyber-Crimes

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The Cabinet granted approval to sign the second additional protocol of the “The convention on Cyber-crimes(Budapest Convention) on cooperation and electronic evidence revelation”.

Sri Lanka has signed as a stakeholder in the convention which is in effect from September 1, 2015, while the second additional protocol would be signed in a ceremony in Strasbourg, France on November 30, 2022, Cabinet spokesman Bandula Gunawardena said.

The cabinet proposal was a combined resolution furnished by the Ministers of Justice, Prison Affairs and Constitutional Reforms and Foreign Affairs, who would sign the protocol there, he said.

The Cabinet also approved a proposal presented by the President as the Minister of Finance to to facilitate payment by domestic controlled companies for the import of raw materials to manufacture goods using foreign exchange, remitted by their parent companies or companies of the same group of companies incorporated outside Sri Lanka.

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