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.
A Sri Lankan man was apprehended at Suvarnabhumi airport for attempting to smuggle wildlife out of the country after three ball pythons were found hidden in his underwear, the Bangkok post reported.
The UK government has unveiled a package of reforms to simplify imports from developing countries which allows for more garments manufactured in Sri Lanka to enter the UK tariff-free.
Read these and more on tomorrow’s edition of the Sunday Times
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