A Sri Lankan court on Monday remanded in custody the eldest son of Sri Lanka’s former President Mahinda Rajapaksa on a fresh money-laundering charge.
Namal Rajapaksa was remanded in custody for a week in a hearing at a magistrates’ court in the capital Colombo. “The order was given in connection with a new allegation that he was responsible for laundering 45 million rupees ($310,000) through two of his companies,” said a court official.
It is the second such accusation to be filed against Namal, who is also facing separate charges that he accepted more than $500,000 from an Indian company as a kickback to speed up a property development venture. Mr. Rajapaksa’s younger son Yoshitha is already facing money-laundering charges over dealings at his private television channel, Carlton Sports Network.
