SRI LANKA - THE EMPTY DOCK
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Sri Lanka, 1977 to 2026. A gang leader shot dead in the dock of a Colombo courtroom, in a killing police say was directed from Dubai. A narcotics unit whose own officers were arrested on allegations of selling seized heroin. A central bank auction in 2015 that put five billion rupees of bonds with the governor's son-in-law's firm, and still has no verdict. An Airbus count headed "Sri Lanka" in a London judgment, an airline chief found dead before trial, a convicted murderer pardoned and sent back to prison, and an elephant laundered through a government registry. Covers Arjuna Mahendran and Perpetual Treasuries, Kapila Chandrasena and Airbus, Duminda Silva and the presidential pardon, Kehelbaddara Padme and the Dubai-based gangs, and Deshabandu Tennakoon and the Sri Lanka Police.
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