Ranjitha Pulses Splitting and Processing Industry Pvt .Limited, the company to which the sugar container in which a haul of cocaine was detected, has been blacklisted, Industry and Commerce Minister Rishad Bathiudeen told Parliament today.
The Minister said this in response to a question raised by Chief Opposition Whip and JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake.
The Minister said that this Company is among 130 suppliers have been registered to supply goods to Lanka Sathosa but it would be barred from supplying any goods to Lanka Sathosa till the investigation in the cocaine detection is complete.
“The company had been registered to supply 500 MT of sugar. The cocaine haul was detected in a sugar container sent to Ratmalana Economic Centre on July 19. The Sathosa workers who recovered it informed the Police. Sathosa has no whatsoever link to this cocaine haul. Since I assumed this ministerial portfolio, I have never imported any goods to Sathosa,” he added.
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.
Israel, a major player in the global diamond and jewellery trade, has invited Sri Lankan gem and jewellery businessmen and designers to collaborate with Israeli diamond traders.
The Government today tabled in the House the Report of the Commission to Inquiry into the Establishment and Maintenance of Unlawful Places of Detention and Torture Chambers in the Batalanda Housing Scheme.
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