18. Request by Sri Lanka 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 Sri Lanka ;

there are reasonable grounds to believe that any property derived or obtained, directly or indirectly, from the commission of that offence is in a specified country, the Central Authority may, in his discretion, require the appropriate authority in such specified country for assistance in identifying, locating, or assessing the value, of such property.