Sri Lankan President Rajapaksa asks anti-graft commission to probe people named in Pandora Papers
The Hindu
Opposition leader Sajith Premadasa said revelations made in the Pandora Papers must be investigated and the government members should not prevent such an impartial inquiry from being conducted.
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Wednesday gave a one-month deadline to the country’s anti-graft commission to investigate the people accused of maintaining offshore accounts in the unprecedented leak of financial documents known as the .
Opposition leader Sajith Premadasa told Parliament that must be investigated and the government members should not prevent such an impartial inquiry from being conducted.
“The President this morning asked the Bribery and Corruption Commission to investigate all Sri Lankans mentioned in the Pandora Papers and their transactions and report to him within a month,” President Rajapaksa’s spokesman Kingsly Rathnayake said.
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