Sri Lanka arrested a former ambassador to
Russia after he was extradited from Dubai Friday to face money laundering charges over a controversial MiG aircraft purchase,
police said.
Udayanga Weeratunga was taken before a magistrate in Colombo who remanded him in custody till Monday pending a further hearing.
Police in a statement said Weeratunga, who is also closely related to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's family, was arrested in connection with an investigation into the Sri Lankan military's 2006 purchase of four second-hand MiG-27 aircraft from Ukraine.