{"id":112335,"date":"2013-10-30T17:19:48","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T11:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=112335"},"modified":"2013-11-03T06:27:53","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T00:57:53","slug":"wikileaks-develop-a-casino-regulatory-scheme-us-treasury-recommends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-develop-a-casino-regulatory-scheme-us-treasury-recommends\/","title":{"rendered":"WikiLeaks: Develop A Casino Regulatory Scheme &#8211; US Treasury Recommends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;A US Treasury team recently conducted an assessment of the Sri Lankan financial sector and concluded that there are weaknesses in the banking sector open to possible exploitation. The assessment concluded that drugs, human smuggling and corruption are the crimes that generate most money laundering problems in Sri Lanka.&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>the US Embassy Colombo informed Washington.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_60874\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-mahinda-confident-that-he-can-manipulate-the-jvp-we-hope-hes-right-us\/mahnida-and-us-ambassador-jeffrey-lunstead\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-60874\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60874\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-60874\" title=\"Mahnida and US Ambassador Jeffrey Lunstead\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Mahnida-and-US-Ambassador-Jeffrey-Lunstead-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Mahnida-and-US-Ambassador-Jeffrey-Lunstead-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Mahnida-and-US-Ambassador-Jeffrey-Lunstead-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-60874\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rajapaksa and the US Ambassador Lunstead<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/\">Colombo Telegraph<\/a>\u00a0found the related leaked cable from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/category\/wikileaks\/\">WikiLeaks<\/a>\u00a0database. The &#8220;Confidential&#8221; cable discuses Sri Lanka\u2019s\u00a0counterterrorism finance initiatives\u00a0and financial crimes. The cable was written by the US Ambassador to\u00a0Colombo\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Jeffrey+J.+Lunstead&amp;x=10&amp;y=5\">Jeffrey J. Lunstead<\/a><\/span>\u00a0on\u00a0March 11, 2004.<\/p>\n<p>The ambassador wrote;&#8221;The assessments also found areas where additional assistance is warranted, including new anti-money laundering legislation; training for Central Bank and banking sector employees; training for judges, prosecutors and investigators; the development of a casino regulatory scheme and awareness training for legislators and other government officials.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Related posts;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a title=\"WikiLeaks: Money Laundering \u2013 Sri Lanka Has No Laws To Regulate Casino Operations\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-money-laundering-sri-lanka-has-no-laws-to-regulate-casino-operations\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">WikiLeaks: Money Laundering \u2013 Sri Lanka Has No Laws To Regulate Casino Operations<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":60874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,6969,2375,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories","category-wikileaks"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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