Sri Lanka’s Cabinet has approved submitting newly gazetted 2026 anti-corruption regulations to Parliament for approval, in a step that brings cryptocurrency and other digital asset holdings under the country’s formal financial-disclosure framework for high-risk public officials, Cabinet Spokesman and Health Minister Nalinda Jayatissa said.
“The Cabinet approved the proposal to submit the said Regulations to Parliament for approval, which have been published through Extraordinary Gazette Notifications Nos. 2482/03 and 2482/04 dated 30-03-2026,” Jayatissa told reporters at the weekly Cabinet briefing, EconomyNext reported.
The regulations are issued under Section 156 of the Anti-Corruption Act, No. 9 of 2023 — the post-Aragalaya statute that consolidated CIABOC’s powers and rewrote Sri Lanka’s asset-declaration regime. The new rules extend the asset categories that high-risk officials must declare to include digital assets, a class previously unaddressed by the country’s anti-corruption disclosure forms.
The Cabinet move comes alongside continuing rollout of the CIABOC asset declaration regime, whose deadline for high-risk officials was extended to June 30 following technical difficulties with the e-asset portal. The Commission has previously warned that misleading public messaging around the regulations carries penalties under the same Anti-Corruption Act.
Parliamentary approval is required before regulations published under Section 156 take full statutory force. The Cabinet decision sets up a parliamentary debate on the scope and coverage of the digital-asset disclosure rules in the weeks ahead.
