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Sarath Weerawansa re-remanded
Former Minister Wimal Weerawansa's brother Sarath Weerawansa, who was arrested by the FCID for allegedly misusing a Government vehicle causing Rs.10.5 million financial loss to the Government, had been ordered to be further remanded till October 5 by the Colombo Fort Magistrate Lanka Jayaratne today.
The FCID told court that the Presidential Secretariat in 2009 had permitted to obtain 12 vehicles for the Parliamentarians elected from the NFF.
THE FCID submitted that the suspect, who was not a Parliamentarian, had obtained one vehicle of it and used it for his personal purposes until 2015 causing Rs. 8.9 million financial loss to the Government.
“Later in 2012, the suspect had been appointed as the private secretary to the then Minister of Housing and Construction and had obtained Rs. 1.6 million as a fuel allowances claiming that he used his private vehicle for Ministerial works while already using a vehicle given by the PS,” the FCID said.
The FCID also said that there was a huge financial misappropriation taken place while using the fuel allowance book pertaining to the highly protected vehicle given to the Minister Weerawansa by the PS.
The prosecution said using that fuel allowance book, the suspect and few others had illegally obtained fuel for some other vehicles as well. (Shehan Chamika Silva)
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