Weapons and ammunitions collected by DIG Vaas from police dept. not returned; has given arms training to underworld criminals
(Lanka-e-News-20.June.2013, 11.30PM) The murderer cum extortionist DIG Vaas Gunawardena had been responsible for the loss of a large quantity of weapons and ammunition belonging to the police . He had either sold or used them for his criminal activities by supplying them to the underworld criminals. The latter had also been given training in weaponry to underworld criminals at the police weaponry training ground itself, according to information reaching Lanka e news inside information division.

Since the time Vaas was an SSP until the time of his arrest as DIG Peliyagoda , 9 firearms, mini ooshi bullets , 360 T 56 bullets, 150 bullets (three boxes) of 9 m.m. pistols which were taken and kept in his possession have gone missing.

He had collected them from time to time citing the ground that they are for the special security division under him , but what truly happened to them is still not known. In the registers (arms and Amo register ) of the Galle police headquarters , the weapons and ammunitions taken by Vaas Gunawardena when he was the SSP at Galle are recorded as follows :

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