FILE PHOTO: Sri Lanka's former Central Bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran leaves the "Presidential Commission of Inquiry to Investigate and Inquire into the Issuance of Treasury Bonds" in Colombo, Sri Lanka March 10, 2017. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte/File Photo
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka will ask Singapore to extradite former central bank governor Arjuna Mahendran in connection with an insider trading investigation, a Foreign Ministry official said on Tuesday.
Mahendran, a Singapore national, has failed to appear before a Sri Lankan court despite being summoned over allegations of malpractice during a 30-year-bond sale in 2015 when he led the central bank.
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