In 2020, Sri Lanka ordered a probe into allegations of bribery by European planemaker Airbus over the sale of aircraft to inform-bustle carrier SriLankan Airlines, after Airbus agreed to select a corruption probe with regulators
Reuters
10 December, 2024, 01:15 pm
Final modified: 10 December, 2024, 01:18 pm
The US Sigh Division announced a slew of sanctions on Monday to designate Worldwide Anti-Corruption Day and the eve of Human Rights Day, targeting contributors from a number of international locations, including the primitive CEO of SriLankan Airlines over Airbus purchases.
Also centered had been North Macedonia’s primitive deputy top minister, Artan Grubi, as well to Enver Bexheti, a make a option from that country’s appeals court and Kevin Kedi, a councilman from the Marshall Islands, for allegedly accepting bribes.
The Sigh Division talked about the United States used to be redesignating UK resident Fawaz Akhras, father of the British-born partner of the deposed Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, for offering him with subject cloth enhance.
A Sigh Division observation talked about Kapila Chandrasena, the primitive CEO of SriLankan Airlines, used to be designated for sanctions along with prompt family members, for allegedly accepting a bribe in exchange for ensuring Sri Lanka purchased Airbus aircraft for over market worth.
Sri Lanka’s primitive ambassador to Russia, Udayanga Weeratunga, in the interim, used to be accused of making the most of a wicked blueprint interesting the procurement of MiG aircraft for the Sri Lankan Air Pressure. He and prompt family members had been designated, the observation talked about.
In 2020, Sri Lanka ordered a probe into allegations of bribery by European planemaker Airbus over the sale of aircraft to inform-bustle carrier SriLankan Airlines, after Airbus agreed to select a corruption probe with regulators.
A senior reliable at SriLankan Airlines talked about on the time that a Colombo court had issued orders to arrest Chandrasena and his partner Priyanka Niyomali Wijenayake as suspects of cash laundering.
The Sigh Division additionally talked about that the United States, in shut coordination with the UK, used to be additionally sanctioning nine contributors and 19 entities serious a number of world gold and diamond corruption network essentially based in Zimbabwe.
It talked about Abdul Qader al-Murtadha, head of the Houthi National Committee for Prisoners’ Affairs (HNCPA) and that group had been designated for involvement in torture, whereas visa restrictions had been imposed on seven contributors accused of undermining peace and security in the West Monetary institution.
Now not one in every of the contributors named might most likely perchance additionally straight away be reached for comment on the steps, which rep a range of sanctions including freezes of any US sources and US visa bans.
