[ap-intact] INFO: India to help Sri Lanka set up FIU to trace billions allegedly stashed abroad by former president

India will help Sri Lanka set up a finance intelligence unit (FIU)-like entity in the island nation at Colombo's request to trace more than $5 billion allegedly stashed overseas by the erstwhile Rajapaksa regime. The new Lankan regime has informally approached the Narendra Modi government to assist in setting up the body, sources said, adding that a formal proposal could be expected soon.

Read the story by Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury, in The Economic Times. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/india-to-help-sri-lanka-set-up-fiu-to-trace-billions-stashed-abroad-by-mahinda-rajapaksa/articleshow/46101613.cms

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