Lawyers cannot facilitate, conceal crime - Justice Aluvihare
SriLanka, Sept. 10 -- The fight against money laundering, terrorist financing and related financial crime is no longer a battle confined to banks, financial institutions, law enforcement agencies and regulators alone, retired Supreme Court Judge Justice Buwaneka Aluwihare said.
Addressing the inaugural National Anti-Money Laundering Symposium organised by the Bar Association of Sri Lanka on Tuesday (8), he said:"A lawyer cannot knowingly permit his or her professional service to become an instrument through which the proceeds of crime are concealed, moved, converted or legitimised," Justice Aluwihare said. He added that legal professional privilege remains a fundamental safeguard belonging to the administration of justice and cannot prop...
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