Insider Dealing
Sept 28, 2011 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's Securities and Exchange Commission said five employees of SMB Leasing, will be charged for insider dealing on the firm's …
Legal
Court Martial
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, September 23, 2011 (AFP) - A third member of an alleged rogue US army unit in Afghanistan pleaded guilty Thursday in a plea deal over …
Terror Funding
Sept 23, 2011 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's parliament has passed changes to laws against money laundering and terrorist financing, broadening their scope and enabling …
Pushed Back
NEW YORK, September 21, 2011 (AFP) - Sentencing of Raj Rajaratnam, the hedge fund magnate convicted in the biggest Wall Street insider trading case in years, …
False Papers
Sept 19, 2011 (LBO) - A Sri Lankan student seeking to study in the United Kingdom was arrested for fraud because she submitted a false education certificate …
Securities Fraud
Sep 14, 2011 (LBO) - Sri Lanka should increase fines for securities fraud because trading volumes and potential for profit is much higher than when the fines …
Watchdog Action
Sept 14, 2011 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's Securities and Exchange Commission said it will take a stock advisor to court and had warned seven others including two …
UN Report
UNITED NATIONS, September 13, 2011 (AFP) - UN leader Ban Ki-moon on Monday sent a report accusing Sri Lankan troops of killing tens of thousands of civilians …
Animal Sacrifice
September 13, 2011 (AFP) - A Sri Lankan minister led a protest march on Tuesday that forced organisers to abandon an annual Hindu sacrifice ritual in which …
Boat People
Sept 11, 2011 (LBO) - Sri Lanka has arrested a fishing vessel with 40 people suspected to be illegal migrants headed for Australia, an official said. Sri Lanka …
Detention Order
Aug 31, 2011 (AFP) - Sri Lanka on Wednesday used draconian anti-terror laws to detain thousands of Tamil rebel suspects who would have had to be freed when a …
Detention End
August 31, 2011 (AFP) - About 1,200 alleged Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka will be released, with the end of emergency rule imposed 28 years ago to deal with …
Compounded
Aug 30, 2011 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's securities watchdog has fined Environmental Resources Inc and several officers, over a disclosure related offence, market …
Fugitive Tipster
NEW YORK (AFP) - US regulators have levied a $34.5 million fine against alleged Galleon case insider trading tipster Deep Shah, who is believed to be hiding in …
Another Step
Aug 25, 2011 (LBO) - Sri Lanka will end nearly three decades of emergency rule, President Mahinda Rajapaksa told the island's parliament, which has to renew …
Foreign Killing
August 19, 2011 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's High Court Friday handed five Chinese nationals the death penalty for murdering a compatriot at a restaurant near the …
Arrest
August 20, 2011 (AFP) - Sri Lankan police on Saturday arrested a top Buddhist monk on a charge of having sex with a 12-year-old girl in violation of strict …
Fraud Network
SYDNEY, August 15, 2011 (AFP) - Five men from Malaysia and Sri Lanka were charged Monday with being members of an international fraud syndicate responsible for …
Sentencing Plea
Aug 11, 2011 (LBO) - Lawyers for Raj Rajaratnam, a Sri Lanka born fund manager convicted of insider trading, said he should be dealt leniently because of his …
Death Sentence
NEW DELHI, August 11, 2011 (AFP) - India's president has rejected mercy pleas from three men convicted of the 1991 assassination of then prime minister Rajiv …