Ex-Spy Chief

Sri Lanka‘s criminal investigators arrested the country’s former intelligence chief on Wednesday in connection with the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 279 people, including 45 foreigners, in what police described as the most high-profile arrest in the long-running investigation.

Retired Major General Suresh Sallay was taken into custody at dawn in Peliyagoda, a suburb of the capital Colombo, by the Criminal Investigation Department.

“He was arrested for conspiracy and aiding and abetting the Easter Sunday attacks,” an investigating officer told AFP. “He has been in touch with people involved in the attacks, even recently.” Sallay has consistently denied …