Former president's secretary Lalith Weeratunga is being questioned by the Police Special Investigation Unit (SIU) over an alleged financial fraud amounting to Rs. 169 million at the Reconstruction and Development Agency (RADA), the Police said.

Police Spokesman Ruwan Gunasekara said Mr. Weeratunga was summoned to the SIU this morning and they were recording a statement from him over the fraud at RADA.

According to the complaint, the funds to the Agency had been sent through the Presidential Secretariat.