Sri Lanka’s runaway ex president to return on Aug 24: report

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa who fled the country in early July following a wave of protests will be returning to Sri Lanka on August 24, a family member and former diplomat was quoted by media reports as saying.

The privately owned NewsFirst network reported on Wednesday August 17 quoting ex-Ambassador to Russia Udayanga Weeratunga that Rajapaksa will return to Sri Lanka next week.

Weeratunga had made this remark after giving a statement to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Wednesday afternoon.

Former President Rajapaksa, who fled the country after protestors stormed his official residence in Colombo, is currently in Bangkok, Thailand. He arrived there on August 12 after a brief stay in Singapore.

Rajapaksa resigned from the presidency after mass protests against the worst currency crisis in the history of the island’s intermediate regime central bank.

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