{"id":67542,"date":"2020-02-07T19:02:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T00:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=67542"},"modified":"2020-02-07T19:03:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T00:03:53","slug":"funds-from-singapore-standard-chartered-bank-account-in-the-name-of-kapila-chandrasenas-wife-priyanka-wijenayake-remitted-to-several-bank-accounts-in-sri-lankacid-seeks-time-from-court-to-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=67542","title":{"rendered":"Funds From  Singapore Standard Chartered Bank Account in the name of Kapila Chandrasena&#8217;s Wife Priyanka Wijenayake  Remitted to Several Bank Accounts in Sri Lanka;CID Seeks Time From Court to Record Statements From  Holders of  Bank Accounts  Which Allegedly  Received Cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> A Sri Lanka court has remanded the ex-Chief Executive Kapila Chandrasena and his wife over a suspected money laundering offence related linked a purchase of a fleet of Airbus aircraft from 2013, who surrendered to police.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Colombo Fort Magistrate Ranga Dissanyake had remanded Chandrasena and his wife Priyanka Niyomali Wijenayake till February 19, after they surrendered to police on February 06.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Solicitor General Thusith Mudalige told court that authorities in Singapore had informed that there was a bank account at Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore in the name of Wijenayake.<\/p>\n<p>Both Chandrasena and his wife had made statements to police from October 04, 2019, he said.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Both had denied knowledge of the bank accounts, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Police had been probing the matter since 2016 and two million dollars had been remitted to the Standard Chartered bank account from a French company.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the money had been sent to several places in Sri Lanka, court was told. Funds had also been sent to one or two bank accounts abroad.<\/p>\n<p>The owners of the accounts were physically present in Sri Lanka, court was told.<\/p>\n<p>Though a large part of the inquiry was finished, time was needed to get statements from the owners of the bank accounts, court was informed.<\/p>\n<p>President\u2019s Counsel Anuja Premaratne, appearing for Chandrasena and his wife had asked for bail under any conditions set by court, and said his clients also had not ability obstruct any witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s Attorney General ordered their arrest after court filings in the UK related to bribery probe on Airbus said the aviation group had paid two million US dollars to the wife of a SriLankan Airlines executive who was engaged as a business partner or intermediary.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:EconomyNext<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton67542\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D67542&amp;text=Funds%20From%20%20Singapore%20Standard%20Chartered%20Bank%20Account%20in%20the%20name%20of%20Kapila%20Chandrasena%26%238217%3Bs%20Wife%20Priyanka...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Sri Lanka court has remanded the ex-Chief Executive Kapila Chandrasena and his wife over a suspected money laundering offence related linked a purchase of a fleet of Airbus aircraft from 2013, who surrendered to police. Colombo Fort Magistrate Ranga Dissanyake had remanded Chandrasena and his wife Priyanka Niyomali Wijenayake till February 19, after they &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=67542\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Funds From  Singapore Standard Chartered Bank Account in the name of Kapila Chandrasena&#8217;s Wife Priyanka Wijenayake  Remitted to Several Bank Accounts in Sri Lanka;CID Seeks Time From Court to Record Statements From  Holders of  Bank Accounts  Which Allegedly  Received Cash&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67542"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67544,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67542\/revisions\/67544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}