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- The Swiss embassy employee, who was convicted in Sri Lanka for allegedly making false statements about a possible kidnapping, has entered Switzerland.
- For reasons of data protection and privacy, the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (EDA) did not provide any further details on the whereabouts of the woman in Switzerland.
- The woman, a local employee of the Swiss embassy in Sri Lanka, was fined 5,000 rupees (14 francs) and has to pay 5,000 francs in court costs.
When asked by the Keystone-SDA news agency, an EDA spokesman said last Saturday that Switzerland would assume the costs of the proceedings. The EDA did not want to comment on the penalty. The verdict was noted. The EDA will analyze it in detail and decide whether further steps need to be taken, it said. The department welcomed the end of the nearly four-year court case.
Alleged kidnapping in Colombo
The case made waves and caused diplomatic tension between Switzerland and Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan national was accused by the authorities in her home country, among other things, of making false statements in an alleged kidnapping case.
Legend:
The convicted embassy employee was released in December 2019.
Keystone/Archive/CHAMILA KARUNARATHNE
According to information from the FDFA in December 2019, the woman had previously stated that on November 25 in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo she had been dragged into a car by strangers and held against her will so that she would disclose internal embassy information.
According to media reports at the time, the woman had been questioned by a Sri Lankan police inspector about the visa. He was involved in investigations into the family of then-President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and fled to Switzerland shortly before. An official investigation by the Sri Lankan government cast doubt on the woman’s statements.
SRF 4 News, 07/18/23, 11:00 p.m.; sda/horm;
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