17. Request by a specified country for tracing proceeds of crime

Where —

a person has been charged with, or convicted of, or is suspected on reasonable grounds of having committed, a serious offence in a specified country ;

there are reasonable grounds to believe that any property derived or obtained, directly or indirectly, from the commission of that offence, is in Sri Lanka ;

the appropriate authority in such specified country requests the Central Authority for assistance in identifying, locating or assessing the value of, such property, the Central Authority may in his discretion, give the assistance requested wherever it is practicable to do so.