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Public Trustee's Dept. not cooperating:Probe head
The Chairman of a Ministerial Committee to probe the affairs of the Public Trustee's Department has complained that the Department is not co-operating in the probe.

Retired Judge G.M.S. Samaraweera, who heads a three-member committee told The Sunday Times that the Public Trustee's Department had not sent some documentation requested by the committee " several weeks back ". Space required at the Department to conduct its proceedings has also not been given, he said.

The committee has also found that the newspaper advertisement placed by the Public Trustee's Department on behalf of the committee calling for public petitions did not contain the full address of where the petitions were to be sent. The Public Trustee oversees a large amount of Trusts, especially those of Buddhist viharas, Hindu kovils, churches and other Trusts established by leading citizens who had entrusted their wealth to him for the public benefit.

When contacted by The Sunday Times Buddha Sasana Ministry Secretary D.W. Abeywickrama said he was not aware how some advertisements calling for public petitions carried the full address, and others did not.

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