Successive pre-Aragalaya governments appointed Presidential Commissions of Inquiry (PCoI) as well as various other committees for specific purposes to dissipate pressure from contentious issues. This despicable strategy was also used to divert
by Our Correspondent in Colombo A constitutional and institutional dilemma is emerging at the heart of Sri Lanka’s Parliament over the position of its current Speaker, Jagath Wickramaratne, following reports that the
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Saima Wazed, the World Health Organization’s Southeast Asia regional director and daughter of ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, has resigned from her position following fraud investigations by the UN agency and
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Sri Lanka’s Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption has disclosed new details of the financial trail behind its investigation into allegations that Parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa received a Rs.100 million bribe
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China’s anti-corruption campaign under President Xi Jinping has expanded far beyond its original focus on economic crime, increasingly becoming a system for scrutinising how officials exercise power, follow central directives, manage their
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A significant ruling by the Civil Appellate High Court of the Western Province, sitting in Colombo, has established an important judicial precedent in Sri Lanka’s property sector by ordering a developer to
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Editorial If there is a single sentence that captures the gravity of Sri Lanka’s latest public finance scandal, it is buried not in a political speech or parliamentary debate, but in the
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The month end saw Daily Mirror blaring “More arrests of lawyers, politicians and senior police officers are likely in the near future” following the arrest of Nadun Chinthaka Wickramaratne alias Harak Kata
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Nigel Farage is facing renewed scrutiny after revelations that a convicted fraudster and cryptocurrency businessman provided him with years of luxury benefits, including security, travel, accommodation and digital campaign support, according to
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Local media reports have revealed allegations that former President Mahinda Rajapaksa and a group of associates received a bribe of US$5 million in connection with the sale of land belonging to the
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A company that helped destroy farmland and threaten protesters in Liberia is now trying to mine the coast of eastern Sri Lanka, and it has not bothered to change its strategy, only
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According to reporting by El País, Spain has entered uncharted political and judicial territory after the Unidad de Delincuencia Económica y Fiscal (UDEF) delivered a formal indictment to former prime minister José
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Ukraine’s anti-corruption institutions have escalated a sweeping investigation into alleged high-level corruption involving senior figures within President Volodymyr Zelensky’s political circle, with a court ordering pre-trial detention for former presidential office head
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Editorial The death of the former Chief Executive Officer of SriLankan Airlines has unfortunately shifted public attention away from what should have become a national outrage demanding immediate resignations and criminal accountability.
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Former Chief Executive Officer of SriLankan Airlines, Kapila Chandrasena, was found dead under suspicious circumstances at a residence in Colpetty, according to Police. His death occurred just hours after the Colombo Magistrate’s
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Pharmaceutical corporations’ focus on profits has resulted in the approval of many drugs that have proved to be harmful to many and have had to be withdrawn. Big Pharma’s use of its profits
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