FILE - Then Sri Lanka's former Defense Secretary and presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa, right, waves to the media as he leaves with his wife Ayoma after casting vote in Embuldeniya, on the outskirts of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, Nov. 16, 2019. Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, his wife and two bodyguards left aboard a Sri Lankan Air Force plane bound for the city of Male, the capital of the Maldives, according to an immigration official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation Wednesday, July 13, 2022.(AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)