The Appeal Court yesterday (18) rejected a petition seeking an interim injunction on the hearing of a case filed by the Attorney General (AG) against former parliamentarian Sajin de Vass Gunawardena over an alleged money laundering case. The former parliamentarian has been indicted on the charge of money laundering amounting to over Rs. 306.26 million, under Section 3 (1) (a) of the Money Laundering Act No. 5 of 2006 as amended by Act No. 40 of 2011. The order was issued by Appeal Court Justices Achala Wengappuli and Priyantha Fernando following a revision petition filed by Gunawardena. However, the court ordered the issuance of notices to the respondents to hear a petition filed by Gunawardena, and ordered the objections to be submitted on 3 July. President’s Counsel (PC) Shavindra Fernando, on behalf of Gunawardena, said that 10 computer hard disks belonging to his client have been included as evidence in the case filed by the AG. However, pointing out that three of the relevant hard disks cannot be accessed, Fernando PC informed the court that it will be unfair by his client if the evidence was based on the data in those three hard disks. Fernando PC therefore requested the court to call for an investigative report by submitting all 10 hard disks to the IT Units of either the Colombo or Moratuwa Universities.