AG reportedly weighing combining Namal Rajapaksa's two Airbus cases into one High Court indictment
Regarding Namal Rajapaksa
What happened?
The Sunday Times reported that the Attorney General is considering combining the separate CIABOC bribery investigation and CID money-laundering investigation against Rajapaksa - both arising from the 2013 Airbus/SriLankan Airlines transaction - into a single prospective High Court indictment. The CID is also reported to be gathering evidence from witnesses in France, the United States, Australia, Singapore and Brunei through mutual legal-assistance procedures, and to be planning to seek Interpol Red Notices for two overseas co-suspects, Priyanka Niyomali Wijenayake and Shamindra Rajapaksa - neither of whom is a politician or separately tracked on Nadu.
What changed?
This is a reported prosecutorial plan, not a filed indictment or confirmed case merger - the two Magistrates' Court proceedings remain separately recorded until an indictment is actually filed and its structure confirmed. Hiru News independently corroborates the underlying joint-investigation posture without confirming a combined indictment has been finalised.
What happens next?
No confirmed next step yet. No indictment has been filed and no case-merger has been confirmed as of this reporting.
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