Category: Legal

October 29, 2009 (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s president ordered police to probe death threats against journalists of a newspaper whose founding editor was murdered earlier this year, a spokesman said Thursday.The Sunday Leader has been critical of the government and its handling of the internally displaced people following the military’s crushing of Tamil rebels earlier […]

TANJUNG PINANG, October 28, 2009 (AFP) – Seventy eight Sri Lankan asylum-seekers are refusing to disembark an Australian customs vessel anchored off Indonesia’s Bintan island, officials said Wednesday.The migrants were rescued by the Australian navy in Indonesian waters 11 days ago but were refusing to speak to Indonesian immigration officials, insisting they want to be […]

TANJUNG PINANG, October 27, 2009 (AFP) – An Indonesian provincial governor refused Tuesday to allow an Australian customs vessel to unload 78 Sri Lankan asylum-seekers, saying Indonesia is not a “dumping ground” for refugees.Opposition to the arrival of the migrants came as Australia stressed it was not trying to push asylum-seekers back onto Indonesia, the […]

VANCOUVER, October 24, 2009 (AFP) – Canada is to release one of 76 Tamils arrested last week in a ship off its Pacific coast, local media reported Saturday.The decision came after a custody hearing, lawyer Narinder Kang told the Globe and Mail newspaper. The released man was ordered to report regularly to border authorities, Kang […]

WASHINGTON, October 22, 2009 (AFP) – About 30 victims of attacks by Sri Lanka’s rebel Tamil Tigers filed a suit Thursday against the billionaire head of a US hedge fund facing insider trading charges. The suit alleges that Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam and a family foundation led by his father gave more than five […]

Oct 20, 2009 (LBO) – The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said one of the accused in its case against senior executives of Singalanka Standard Chemicals charged with falsifying accounts and forging auditors’ signatures has pleaded guilty. The SEC said the court re-issued summons against the first accused, the former chairman of Singalanka Standard Chemicals, […]

Oct 19, 2009 (AFP) – Sri Lankan-born hedge fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam was investigated for allegedly funding Tamil Tiger rebels, but there was no evidence against him, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka said Monday.US authorities on Friday charged Rajaratnam, 52, with fraud after saying they had uncovered the biggest ever case of insider-trading by […]

VANCOUVER, October 19, 2009 (AFP) – The Canadian Tamil Congress said Sunday its lawyers will represent dozens of illegal migrants arrested on a mystery ship seized off Canada’s West Coast.Detention hearings will begin early this week for as many as 76 migrants from a freighter seized Friday by Canadian military, police and other agencies. The […]

Oct 19, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is continuing investigations into financial support given to a Tamil charity with alleged terrorist links by a US hedge fund manager who was arrested for fraud, a senior official said.Sri Lankan Central Bank governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal told LBO the banking regulator was still investigating contributions made by […]

Oct 18, 2009 (LBO) – A repayment plan proposed for Ceylinco Shriram Capital Management Services, a unit of Sri Lanka’s troubled Ceylinco group has been rejected by customers who put money in the company, a media report said.In Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court where the case relating to Golden Key is being heard, 259 million rupees […]

WASHINGTON, October 18, 2009 (AFP) – A US-based hedge-fund billionaire charged as part of an insider-trading case was investigated by US authorities for allegedly raising funds for a Sri Lankan separatist group, The Wall Street Journal reported late Saturday. Citing people familiar with the probe, the newspaper said federal agents had uncovered documents showing that […]

NEW YORK, October 16, 2009 (AFP) – US authorities Friday charged a billionaire hedge fund manager and five others with insider trading that netted 20 million dollars on trades in Google, Hilton Hotels Corp. and other companies. The case was helped by a cooperating witness, who indicated that Rajaratnam learned, for example in 2007 that […]