Kuala Lampur, May 19 -- Sri Lanka has a strange relationship with accountability.

We adore the theatre of justice.

The press conference. The dramatic raid. The minister standing behind a microphone, sleeves metaphorically rolled up, promising to finally hunt down the untouchables. Every election, another government arrives carrying a moral broom the size of Adam's Peak, vowing to sweep corruption out of the republic.

And every few years, we discover the same depressing truth.

The truly powerful rarely get caught.

Because real corruption is not amateur hour.

If you think sophisticated operators move money in their own names, leave tidy paper trails, or hand over briefcases under flickering street lamps, you have been watching too man...