Top FCID team going to LA

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A top level Financial Crimes Investigation Division (FCID) team is to travel to Los Angeles to probe the alleged use of Government funds for an office of the Consulate of Sri Lanka.

Such an office, it has come to light, was not an official institution coming under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.The probe comes in the wake of a written complaint to the FCID by the Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera. The FCID team is expected to be led by Senior DIG Ravi Waidyalankara.

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