The Colombo Fort Magistrate has imposed a travel ban on former CEO of SriLankan airlines Kapila Chandrasena and his wife Priyanka Niyomali Wijenayake who face allegations of money laundering in the SriLanka airlines Airbus refleet deal.
The CID has also informed courts that they are investigating the bank accounts opened under the identity card numbers of Chandrasena and his wife.
The order preventing Chandrasena and his wife leaving the country was issued by Magistrate Ranga Dissanayake.
Police was yesterday trying to track down the former CEO and his wife.
The developments came after revelations that Airbus SE hired the wife of a SriLankan Airlines (SLA) executive as a business partner through a dummy company she registered in Brunei.
The corporation then paid into this entity’s account a sum of US$ 2mn (Rs 362mn) out of a total US$ 16.84mn (Rs 3bn) promised in return for ensuring that the national carrier bought aircraft from Airbus, court documents revealed this week.
I still remember the day of August 1947 floods, as it was the last school day at Kingswood College Kandy and the height the water soured. Water rose to the height of the Cross of the Chrurch at Getambe and the water was so high that it engulfed the Getambe Rajaponawarma Temple leaving only a few leaves of the Bo-tree visible.
The Colombo Additional Magistrate has ordered the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) to investigate and submit a report over a complaint about the alleged illegal assets gained by model Piumi Hansamali.
Heritage properties are major tourist attractions world over. Sri Lanka is no exception in this matter. From Colombo, Galle, most of the mountain cities including Nuwara Eliya, Bandarawela, Hatton and Kandy and in the North, hundreds of heritage properties are spread across.
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