Navy demands Rs. 700 m from Avant Garde

Dec 16, 2015

The Navy has sent a letter to Avant Garde Security Services (Ptv) Ltd demanding Rs. 700 million which it owes to the Sri Lanka Lanka Navy.

Navy Media Spokesman Captain Alavi Akram told the media  that Avant Garde Security Services Company owed the Sri Lanka Navy Rs. 700 million.

"We have already sent the letter to Avant Garde Security Services (Pvt) Ltd. The Defence Ministry has also been informed about this issue," he said.

The Navy is planning to take further legal action against Avant Garde if it fails to respond to the letter, Captain Akram said. Meanwhile, former Secretary to the Chairman of Avant Garde Maritime Security Services Kamal Gamage said they have never taken a cent from the government.

"We have contributed both, to the Consolidated Fund of the State and the Navy Welfare Fund. The Navy is now asking us to pay another amount of over Rs. 500 million towards its Welfare Fund in an unethical manner. But Minister Rajitha Senaratne had said that our funds should be credited to the Consolidated Fund," he said. "We are now in doubt. We deposited Rs. 1.8 million to the credit of the Navy Welfare Fund monthly when we were in the business. But we do not know what they did with the money," he said.
- Daily News-