The Crime Investigation Department (CID) has received 30 telephone recordings concerning the monetary fraud of the businesswoman, Thilini Priyamali now in custody .
The recordings have been handed over by former Governor Azath Salley.
The tapes include conversations with a Buddhist monk from a temple in Borella assuring those who have invested with Priyamali’s that she would pay back the money.
Earlier, Mr Salley had told how Priyamali was introduced to him and his friend by the director of One Transworks Square (Pvt.) Ltd., luring them to invest money with her group of companies, which would bring “good returns”.
In a related development a company in Kadawatha lodged a complaint against the business woman for issuing invalid cheques to the value of over 500,000 to purchase of mobile phone equipment from a company in Kadawatha.
She was produced to the Mahara Courts on Wednesday where she was remanded and ordered to be present at court again on November 9, by the Mahara Magistrate, Kanchana Niranjala De Silva.
However, she is already in remand custody over other cases.
Public Security Minister Ananda Wijepala told Parliament today that the suspect in the rape of a lady doctor at the Anuradhapura teaching hospital has been identified as an army deserter and he will be apprehended shortly.
Police have arrested the suspect connected to the sexual assault on a female doctor at the Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital today morning in Galnewa.
The Dutch Public Prosecutor suspects two companies of paying bribes in the construction of hospitals in Sri Lanka, according to an investigation by FD, the Dutch financial newspaper.
The Minister of Power, Kumara Jayakody, stated that in the future, internationally funded projects, such as power projects, will only be carried out through government-to-government (G2G) agreements and competitive procurement.
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