Vass and Anura had extorted monies from Tiger bombers

Thursday, 27 June 2013

Senior DIG Anura Senanayake from the Colombo Crimes Division (CCD) and DIG Vass Gunawardena who was an SSP and head of the CCD in 2009 had reportedly taken bribes of Rs. 20 lakhs and Rs. 25 lakhs respectively from Sri Lanka Army Colonel Ranjith Chandrasiri Perera alias Army Uncle, Kandavam Gokulam alias Inbam and Kanakarathnam Adhithyam alias Anna who are accused of trying to explode a bomb at the Deyata Kirula exhibition in 2009.

Anura Senanayake and Vass Gunawardena had taken these bribes with the promise of getting these three persons released from custody. However, after accepting the bribes, they were handed over to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) from the CCD. When the three individuals had confessed at the CID, they had revealed that Senanayake and Vass Gunawardena had taken Rs. 45 lakhs from them with the promise of getting them released. The inquiring officers had informed the CID Director of the confession. Senanayake and Vass Gunwardena had been informed about the confession by the three individuals in custody.
Senanayake had laughed and asked the CID officer to ignore the confession.
The case against these three individuals was taken up for hearing last week before Colombo High Court Judge Kumudhini Wickremasinghe. The case was postponed to August on a request made by Advocate Saliya Peiris.