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Shani remanded; more arrests likely
View(s):As investigations continue into the ex-Criminal Investigation Department Director Shani Abeysekara’s alleged fabrication of evidence, police said more arrests were likely soon.
Shani Abeysekera being taken to court by CCD officers
Senior Superintendent Abeysekara was remanded till August 7 by the Gampaha Magistrate on Friday night after he was taken into custody by the Colombo Crime Division (CCD) earlier in the day for allegedly fabricating evidence in the case against former Deputy Inspector General Vass Gunawardena.
Former DIG Vass Gunawardena, his son and four other suspects were found guilty of the abduction and killing of businessman Mohamed Shiyam and sentenced to death by a trial-at-bar at the Colombo High Court in 2015.
Earlier this year, SSP Abeysekera was interdicted on charges of engaging in telephone conversations that brought disrepute to the Police Service.
Police spokesman Jaliya Senaratne said SSP Abeysekara was taken into custody following statements given by two police officers and two other individuals claiming that the cache of weapons found hidden in a house in Gampaha did not belong to DIG Gunawardena but had been brought and placed there by SSP Abeysekara himself.
SSP Senaratne added that the police were moving to arrest two other retired CID officers in connection with the ongoing investigation into fabricating evidence.