Trade Union leader implicated in Rs. 3.6Mn fraud involving forged deed, court orders further investigation

• Perpetrators had forged the name and registration number of the National Workers Institute

By Dilanga Gomes   

 Mount-Lavinia Magistrate Nilupuli Lankapura yesterday  ordered police to conduct further investigations and to arrest the  suspects involved in the alleged leasing of a building and land  belonging to the National Works Institute on a forged deed.   Colombo Fraud Investigation Bureau conducting  investigations of the alleged fraud told court that the evidence of  several witnesses were yet to be recorded.   

Attorney at Law Atula Ranagala appearing for the  complainant informed court that the involvement of the fraud was Rs.3.6  million and that a member of a leading trade union was behind the fraud. The perpetrators of the fraud had forged the name and the registration number of the National Workers Institute.  The case was postponed to November 22.