Category: Legal

Feb 02, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has tied up with Malaysia’s central bank to combat cross-border money laundering and terrorist finance, the Central Bank said. “Sri Lankan authorities should ensure that the FIU should be given operational independence to ensure freedom from undue influence or interference,” the IMF said. The […]

Feb 01, 2008 (LBO) – Canadian police are probing links with Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers in a bank payment card fraud involving suspects of Sri Lankan origin, a media report said. Canadian police had stopped a car that ran a stop sign and arrested two Canadian and two British residents of Sri Lankan origin with […]

Jan 31, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s inflation rose by 3.0 percent in January driving 12-month inflation to 20.8 percent on a revised index of consumer prices in Colombo, the government’s statistics office said. Another index of Colombo prices which has a higher weight of food and is based on the consumption pattern of working […]

Jan 29, 2008 (LBO) — Two more Sri Lankan have been sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia, media reports said, while Amnesty International said they were convicted without legal representation on ‘confessions’ obtained under duress.Haleema Cadre from Kalmunai, a mother with an 8-year old son, her husband who is an Indian national and K M […]

Jan 28, 2008 (LBO) – Developing countries should first enlighten state officials and citizens on privacy to implement a privacy regime that helps develop e-commerce and international trade, experts say. A privacy regime is a mechanism that is in place to protect personal information which is stored or transferred into and out of a country. […]

Jan 23, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is a safe place to travel in, Sri Lanka’s chief justice Sarath Silva told delegates of an international law conference in Colombo this week. “Our image is not the best, but I can assure you that this is a very safe place,” Silva told foreign delegates of the […]

Jan 22, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka and other Asia-Pacific nations must work out common procedures to apply laws so that electronic crimes do not proliferate, the island’s top judicial officer said.“This is something that other jurisdictions can emulate,” he said. “In Malaysia we have ‘cyber city’ to get everybody together to have technology development […]

Jan 19, 2007 (LBO) – The legality of Sri Lanka’s casinos is uncertain and the lack of supervision could opened them to be controlled by criminals, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said. “Illegal profits are co-mingled with legitimate income in the placement and layering stages of money laundering.” The lack of regulation also made […]

Jan 19, 2007 (LBO) – The United States has said Sri Lanka could get more support in its war against Tamil Tiger terrorism if the island improves its human rights record. A U.S embassy statement said the two countries discussed co-operation against Tamil Tiger terrorism during a visit by Admiral Robert F. Willard, Commander of […]

SYDNEY, Jan 15, 2008 (AFP) – Nauru authorities have dropped sexual assault charges against six Sri Lankan asylum seekers, paving the way for their claims to be processed, Australian immigration officials said Tuesday. The six are among the last asylum seekers held in an Australian immigration detention centre on the Pacific island which Australian Prime […]

Jan 14, 2008 (AFP) – A Sri Lankan man has been released from prison after spending 50 years on remand, his lawyer said Monday.D.P. James, now 80, was arrested in August 1958 for attacking and wounding his father with a knife. He was sent to jail, then moved to a psychiatric hospital, and then discharged […]

Jan 12, 2007 (LBO) – Credit cards purported to have been issued by two Sri Lankan banks were found with a British national arrested in India over a credit card scam, a media report said. Police examinations of his e-mail had revealed that he had received confidential information such as PIN of ATM cards and […]