The Special High Court has issued summons on an Indian businessman to provide witness in a bribery case involving the Kantale Sugar Factory.
Indian businessman K. Nagaraja had filed a complaint at the Bribery Commission after he had been asked to pay a bribe of Rs 450 million by two former state officials in order to facilitate the smooth transfer of the defunct Kantale Sugar factory.
The businessman had claimed that the Board of Investment (BOI) had awarded him the tender to restructure the company, and that these officials had been obstructing the process in a bid to solicit a bribe.
During today’s hearing, court announced that the case filed against former President's chief-of-staff Kusumdasa Mahanama and former State Timber Corporation Chairman P Dissanayake who had solicited the bribe, would be taken up for hearing on September 09.
The Bribery Commission had filed a case against the two suspects under 24 counts and had handed over indictments to them earlier this month.
Both state officials had been arrested while obtaining Rs 20 million of the total bribe at the parking area of a leading hotel in Colombo on August 11, 2016.
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