Navy personnel attached to Northern Command recovered 153 kg of Kerala Cannabis wrapped in three Polysak bags consisting of 44 parcels (each approx weight 2.3Kg to 4.5 Kg) floating near Kangesthanthurai (KKS) yesterday, Navy said.
Earlier Navy suspected that a consignment of contraband due to be smuggled to Velvatithurai area and accordingly deployed naval crafts to cover general sea area. Navy said that smugglers have overthrown the consignment of contrabands last night due inability to bring same to shore as naval patrol units had sealed up their approaches/ landing point.
The Northern Naval Command is vigilant on arresting of contraband smuggled to area and up to date the Command has apprehended a total weight of 1639.93Kgs of Kerala Cannabis smuggled to the area since January 2015.
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Deputy Minister of Finance and Economic Stabilization and NPP National List MP Harshana Suriyapperuma who is tipped to be named the next Finance Ministry Secretary resigned from Parliament today.
Former Chairman of SriLankan Airlines, Nishantha Wickramasinghe, arrested on allegation of corruption by the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) has been remanded until July 1 by the Colombo Magistrate court.
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