Gota’s Additional Sec. gives evidence before PRECIFAC

THURSDAY, 21 JANUARY 2016 

Ms. Damayanthi Jayaratne,, an additional Secretary of  the Ministry of Defense when Mr. Gotabhaya Rajapaksa was its Secretary, who has been accused of compiling illegal documents to provide state owned firearms to Avant Garde Company and had secretly left the country while the Additional Solicitor General of Attorney General’s Department had instructed to arrest her gave evidence before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry to investigate and inquire into Serious Acts of Fraud, Corruption and Abuse of Power, State Resources and Privileges (PRECIFAC) today (21st).

It is in relation to investigations being carried out by PRECIFAC regarding frauds and corruption said to have been committed in Rakna Lanka Security Company.

It was reported that Ms. Jayaratna has been working as an additional secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs in which Mr. Vajira Abeywardana is the Minister. It is stated that she has dual citizenship.