President Maithripala Sirisena has signed the relevant documents to extradite former Central Bank governor Arjuna Mahendran from Singapore over the bond scam case, a spokesman for the President said.
Recently, the Attorney General (AG) had submitted a 21,000-page document to the Foreign Affairs and Defence Ministries in a bid to extradite the suspect.
Mahendran, is among ten individuals accused of causing massive losses to the government by illegally issuing treasury bonds of the central bank in 2015.
President Sirisena this week said that more documents have been prepared to bring the perpetrators of the bond scam who were in higher positions than the Central Bank governor, before the law.
(The images produced below, as released by the President's Office, shows the President signing the documents)
A Sri Lanka Air Force Bell 212 helicopter belonging to the No. 72 squadron has crashed into the Madhuru Oya reservoir this morning, Air FOrce Media Spokesman Eranda Geeganage said.
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