Sri Lanka, July 3 -- COLOMBO - The Court of Appeal on Friday (2) dismissed an appeal filed by Yoshitha Rajapaksa, the son of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, seeking to prevent prosecutors from proceeding with a conspiracy charge in an ongoing money laundering case before the Colombo High Court.

The judgment was delivered by a bench comprising Justices Amal Ranaraja and Dr Sumudu Premachandra, with the court ruling that there is no legal impediment to prosecuting the conspiracy charge against Rajapaksa.

Delivering the ruling, Justice Ranaraja said the appellant had argued that the conspiracy charge could not be maintained after the second accused in the case was discharged from the proceedings.

The Court of Appeal rejected that argu...