19 April 2022 05:17 pm Views - 6172
Responding to the reports that former Minister of Public Security Sarath Weerasekara was using a V8 luxury vehicle used earlier by Zahran Hashim who led the Easter Sunday Attacks, the police said a vehicle used by Zahran has not been seized by the police.
However, the CID has seized a WP CAS 1411 4WD luxury vehicle was used by Easter Sunday attacker named Mohammad Ibrahim Insaf Ahmed who blew himself at the Cinnamon Grand Hotel in Kollupitiya.
Police said the vehicle was duly confiscated through a Gazette Notification Ref. 2123/3 dated May 13, 2019 and handed over to the Sri Lanka Police, after which it was handed over to the Police Transport Division and attached to the Police Special Task Force.
SJB MP Harin Fernando in Parliament questioned as to how former Minister Weerasekara was using the V8 luxury vehicle used by suicide bomber Zahran Hashim.
He questioned as to how a vehicle which was kept as a case production in the courts be used by a minister.
MP Weerasekara denied that he had used the vehicle. (Darshana Sanjeewa Balasuriya)