A household inventory book from the official residence of Sri Lanka’s Speaker of Parliament, Jagath Wickramaratne, has gone missing while the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption is conducting an
by Durga Velayudham A marriage certificate is not merely a piece of paper recording a private relationship. In a legal system founded upon registration, it is an official record created through a
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It has been revealed that during a loan instalment settlement executed through the General Treasury, USD 2.5 million belonging to the Central Bank of Sri Lanka was diverted to an unauthorised third
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo As Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith rejects the death penalty while continuing to demand answers over the Easter Sunday attacks, a more fundamental question is becoming increasingly difficult to
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Editorial There is something deeply unsettling about a country fighting corruption while simultaneously contemplating a legal mechanism that could allow a participant in corruption to escape prosecution by telling the authorities what
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Corruption is not new. It appears wherever people have power over scarce resources. No country, ideology or political system is immune. It is not a rare mistake that a “good leader” can
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According to Der Spiegel, the extraordinary rise of Jason Arday, until recently a professor at the University of Cambridge, has become the centre of a scandal extending far beyond one academic career.
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Poland has appealed a Belgian court ruling requiring it to accept and pay for millions of Covid-19 vaccine doses rejected under a European Union procurement agreement negotiated during the pandemic. The legal
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Colombian prosecutors are investigating allegations that executives linked to a Chinese state-owned contractor demanded cash payments from a local subcontractor in exchange for approving invoices on Bogotá’s metro project, South America’s largest
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Anthony Fauci, the veteran scientist who led the United States’ response to the Covid-19 pandemic under both President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden, is facing renewed political and legal pressure after
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Lal Wijenayake is the first citizen to come out against the National People’s Power government. He came out against not just any government, but a government with a two-thirds majority. And a
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Former Ukrainian Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov has said his dismissal from office was primarily driven by his efforts to overhaul Ukraine’s military procurement system, arguing that reforms aimed at increasing transparency and
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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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A massive cyberattack on Tata Electronics, Apple’s manufacturing partner in India, has exposed sensitive product information and prompted renewed scrutiny of the country’s ambitions to become a global manufacturing powerhouse. While analysts
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A pro-government private media entity in Colombo is reportedly preparing to launch a new political party following the conclusion of President Anura Kumara’s five-year term, according to reliable sources. The initiative is
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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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