CID, FCID probe on millions of dollars spent on foreign PR
View(s):The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) and the Financial Crimes Investigation Division (FCID) are in the process of investigating millions of unauthorised dollars paid by the Central Bank (CB) to US-based lobbyists and public relations firms during the term of the former regime, informed sources said.“The investigation is likely to start in days at the CB with an examination of the books and records pertaining to these payments,” a Government source told the Business Times on Wednesday.
Comprehensive details of these ‘secret’ payments at the behest of former MP Sajin Vass Gunawardene and President’s Secretary Lalith Weeratunga (on directives by former President Mahinda Rajapaksa) have been bared exclusively by the Sunday Times in a series of stories.