Overseas Minister Ali Sabry informed CNN late Wednesday the Sri Lankan authorities had been informed of Rajapaksa’s return “by means of diplomatic channels.”
“Formally we’ve no function within the return. He’s a citizen of Sri Lanka and might journey as he needs,” Sabry stated.
Rajapaksa’s estranged cousin Udayanga Weeratunga, a former Sri Lankan Ambassador to Russia, informed reporters Wednesday the previous chief would return on August 24.
He tendered his resignation from Singapore, whereas public anger grew over his alleged mismanagement of the financial system.
The previous chief’s hurried exit was a historic second for the nation of twenty-two million, which members of the Rajapaksa household dominated with an iron fist for a lot of the previous twenty years.
Anger has been rising in Sri Lanka for months after the nation’s overseas change reserves plummeted to document lows, with {dollars} working out to pay for important imports together with meals, drugs and gasoline.
His departure got here throughout a day of chaos and violence that culminated in police imposing a curfew throughout the nation.
