Former Presidential Chief of Staff I H K Mahanama was sentenced to 20-years RI while former Chairman of the State Timber Corporation (STC) Piyadasa Dissanayake was sentenced to 12 years RI by the Special High Court today (Dec 19).
Both former officials were found guilty of the charges laid against them for soliciting a bribe of Rs. 20 million.
The Permanent High Court at Bar delivered the order when the case was taken up this morning.
Mahanama and Dissanayake were arrested by the Bribery Commission for allegedly soliciting a bribe of Rs. 20 million from an Indian businessman named K. Nagaraja in order to transfer the machinery equipment belonging to the Kantale Sugar Factory in May 2018.
According to reports, the total amount of the bribe they had demanded from the said businessman was Rs. 54 million.
Tamar Amitai, a 25-year-old Israeli tourist who went missing in Uppuveli, Trincomalee, was found safe after a three-day joint search operation today.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe is firm about the President’s five-year tenure, the President’s Media Division (PMD) said.
Individuals who have obtained a Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) yet do not meet the cutoff, can choose to remain tax exempt after notifying the IRD in writing, provided that their monthly income does not surpass the threshold, according to the State Minister of Finance Ranjith Siyambalapitiya.
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