Sri Lanka ex-Prez son booked for financial crime
Yoshitha Rajapaksa, son of Sri Lanka's former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, and four others on Friday were remanded to judicial custody till February 11 over charges of money laundering. Yoshitha, a navy lieutenant, was questioned over his involvement in the management of a private television company. The former President claimed this was the Sirisena government's attempt at political revenge.