Sri Lanka

The Kaduwela Magistrates Court has enforced an abroad travel restriction on Daisy Forrest Wickremesinghe, likewise referred to as Daisy Achchi, who is the granny of Yoshitha Rajapaksa, in connection with a cash laundering case.Speaking to the media, Police Media Spokesman SSP Buddhika Manathunga specified that under the instructions of the Attorney General, Daisy Forrest was called a suspect ina a money laundering case and in the investigations performed into a Rs.
59 million joint account held by Yoshitha Rajapaksa and Daisy Forrest, to which Rajapaksa failed to offer a reasonable explanation on the source of earnings.Furthermore, SSP Manathunga noted that all suspects involved in the case will be prosecuted under the cash Laundering Act.





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