Assassination suspect thought to be hiding in Australia Malini Ventura: the wanted man was listed as a director of her firm.
By Rory Callinan A Sri Lankan policeman wanted in connection with the assassination of a prominent Sri Lankan politician and human rights lawyer is suspected of hiding in Australia and running an eco-consultancy business.
The eco-consultancy is owned by a woman who says she is a friend of former US president Bill Clinton. 
Sri Lankan police have confirmed asking Australian police for help in tracking down Fabian Royston Toussaint who is wanted in Sri Lanka in connection with the 2006 shooting death of Tamil politician and human rights lawyer Nadarajah Raviraj.
Australian Securities and Investment Commission records this month listed Mr Toussaint as being a director of Eco Support Consulting, a private company owned by a Malaysian-born businesswoman Malini Ventura which was established in   May 2014, and registered in Victoria.
Ms Ventura, who has since changed her last name to Saba, was involved in promoting charity dinners with Mr Clinton in Sydney and Brisbane that were mysteriously cancelled in 2010 leaving ticket buyers out of pocket.
Fairfax Media does not suggest Ms Saba is in any way connected to the political assassination or any of the allegations involving Mr Toussaint.
Ms Saba last week confirmed that she had employed Mr Toussaint in the eco-consulting business but had fired him in   January after becoming aware of the allegations levelled against him.
She also confirmed that Mr Toussaint had come to Australia "as a tourist" but she said she did not know his whereabouts.
"That guy has been fired since   January and I don't keep in touch with that person. I wouldn't know where to look for him. I had my team fire him." She said the company was no longer operating.
Last week Sri Lankan police homicide Inspector Anuruddha Polwatha confirmed there was a warrant out for the arrest of Mr Toussaint in connection with Mr Raviraj's death.
Mr Raviraj was gunned down in the street by two men on a motorbike, a day after he led a protest demonstration over a Sri Lankan army bombing that killed civilians in 2006.
Inspector Polwatha said Sri Lankan police had contacted Australian police more than two months ago after receiving a tip-off that Mr Toussaint was living in Australia but were yet to receive any information.
He was surprised to learn of Mr Toussaint's alleged involvement in the eco-consultancy.
"He's [Toussaint] a cop. He is not expert in such matters," said Inspector Polwatha speaking from Colombo.
Police suspected Mr Toussaint may have been seeking asylum in Australia as he was reported to have left Sri Lanka four or five years earlier. He said Mr Toussaint had been named in court as being a wanted suspect in the killing. Efforts to contact Mr Toussaint were unsuccessful.
The registered address for Eco Support Consulting company is listed as being at Swaab lawyers in Hunter Street, Sydney.
On Monday Swaab partner Terry Sperber said he could confirm that the firm had acted for a Ms Ventura in the past. But he said: "We haven't done so for quite some time."
He said he had no information about the whereabouts of Mr Toussaint or a Ms Ventura.
Ms Saba says she is a friend of Mr Clinton and donated between $500,000 and $1million to the Clinton Foundation in the US.
In 2010 she made headlines when using the name "Malini Alles- Ventura", she promoted the charity dinners with Mr Clinton organised through a private company, Redbrick Development Pty Ltd.
Ms Saba has denied any impropriety in business dealings and said the dinners did not go ahead because Mr Clinton had cancelled.
She denied the ticket sale was a scam and said her "attorneys were still handling" issues with the money being refunded. When asked who the lawyers were she declined to provide their name.
A spokesman for the Australian Federal Police refused to comment on whether officers were assisting Sri Lankan authorities in the hunt for Mr Toussaint. The Immigration Department declined to comment on mr Toussaint.