Parliamentarian of Colombo District Duminda Silva was questioned by the Criminal Investigations Department over allegation of money laundering levelled by a notorious drug dealer for more than eight hours and released , a senior police officer said. The police said that Gampala Gnanalal ge Samantha Kumara known as “Wele Suda” an international drug dealer was arrested on January 12, 2015 who is being further questioned had made a statement implicating the MP. Two high courts have pending cases filed against him. CID had appointed a special team of officials to investigate the allegations made and so far have recorded 75 statements from various heads of state departments and Bank officials. Police spokesman SSP Ajith Rohana said that Wele Sudha had transactions with 82 banks and financial institutions. “Wele Suda’s statements had revealed about state officials and various people who are connected to alleged drug dealings including money transactions with Duminda Silva’, SSP Rohana said. Police sources said that the question of the MP had ended around 4.30 p.m
I still remember the day of August 1947 floods, as it was the last school day at Kingswood College Kandy and the height the water soured. Water rose to the height of the Cross of the Chrurch at Getambe and the water was so high that it engulfed the Getambe Rajaponawarma Temple leaving only a few leaves of the Bo-tree visible.
The Colombo Additional Magistrate has ordered the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) to investigate and submit a report over a complaint about the alleged illegal assets gained by model Piumi Hansamali.
Heritage properties are major tourist attractions world over. Sri Lanka is no exception in this matter. From Colombo, Galle, most of the mountain cities including Nuwara Eliya, Bandarawela, Hatton and Kandy and in the North, hundreds of heritage properties are spread across.
The Colombo High Court today (28) sentenced former parliamentarian Hirunika Premachandra to three years of Rigorous Imprisonment over charges of the involvement of an abduction.
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