The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is to probe into bank accounts and personal contacts of Ceylinco Chief Lalith Kotelawala, Deputy Chairmen and Directors of the Golden Key (GK) Credit Card Company.
Mount Lavinia Chief Magistrate Harsha Setunge directed several bank managers and managers of several mobile telephone service providers including Nations Trust Bank, HNB,DFCC,HSBC, BOC, and Seylan, along with Air tel and Tigo who were present in Court to submit statements of respondents’ accounts on an application made by Deputy Solicitor General Sarath Jayamanna when the Golden Key Credit Card fraud case was taken up for hearing on June 18.
He told Court that statements of 1,650 depositors had been recorded and 525 documents from the Golden Key Credit Card Company and its affiliated companies had been seized by the CID and the investigators will use its data to obtain more information. The Mount Lavinia Chief Magistrate refused applications for bail in respect of the suspects including the Chairman of the Golden Key Credit Card Company who had been remanded in connection with the alleged fraud and remanded them till July 16.
The judge also directed the Prison authorities to produce the suspects on July 2, to extend their remand orders.
The Deputy Solicitor General said that the investigators in the presence of Mr. Kotalawela and several others broke opened the door of a room of Mrs. Kotalawela and seized several valuable documents.
Meanwhile, addressing a meeting of over 1,000 GK depositors, who participated in a massive protest demonstration opposite the Mount Lavinia Magistrate court, President of the GK Depositors Association urged the Central Bank authorities to expedite the preparation of the payment plan.
The association has decided to conduct another protest opposite the Inland Revenue Department next Thursday expressing their displeasure on the department’s action to recover taxes from depressed depositors. |
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