State Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage today (5) said he was informed that former CEO SriLankan Airlines(SLA) Kapila Chandrasena, who has a warrant against him, is not in Sri Lanka. The Colombo Magistrate Court issued a warrant on Monday (3) to arrest Chandrasena and his wife Priyanka Niyomali Wijenayaka over the recently exposed Airbus -SriLankan Airlines bribery deal. International media reports on Saturday (1) revealed that SLA had been a part of Airbus’s massive scheme to offer and pay bribes to secure deals in many countries. Investigators revealed that between 1 July 2011 and 1 June 2015, Airbus failed to prevent persons associated with it from bribing others concerned with the purchase of aircraft by SLA from Airbus, namely directors and/or employees of SLA. Reports said that Airbus employees have offered up to $ 16.84 million to a company registered under a wife of a SriLankan Executive to influence SLA’s purchase of 10 Airbus aircraft and the lease of an additional four aircraft. A sum of $ 2 million had already been deposited by Airbus to the account of the said company in Brunei.