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Overseas travel ban, sign-in at CID on final Sunday of every month for Yapa
View(s):By Ranjith Padmasiri
Four suspects including former minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa and his wife were released on bail by Colombo Additional Magistrate Harshana Kekulawala on Thursday (23) after being arrested and produced in court on charges of misappropriating over Rs 6.1 million in public funds given as flood relief in 2014.
The suspects, Mr Yapa, his wife Dhammika Yapa, former Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) Chairman S Amarasekara and Anura Seneviratne, were released on two surety bails of Rs 2.5 million each. The court imposed an overseas travel ban on the suspects and ordered them to report to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on the final Sunday of every month.
The charges against the suspects allege that they had misappropriated over Rs 6.1 million granted to 250 families who were displaced owing to floods experienced in the Giriulla and Pannala areas in December 2014. The CID told court that the funds had been obtained from the CPC claiming they would be used to purchase dry rations worth Rs 2,500 for each family from Sathosa but had then been misappropriated for other purposes.
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