Who gobbled up Rs. 20 million from Lankan embassy in Italy ?

Feb 03, 2016

The CID has been able to uncover a massive financial fraud that had taken place at the Sri Lankan embassy in Italy during the Rajapaksa regime. The fraud amounts to Rs. 18 million. The CID is investigating a complaint it has received in this regard.

Accordingly, the officer who had been in charge of the accounts division at the embassy has been arrested. CID officials are presently questioning him.

 

Under interrogation, the suspect has said that he had credited the money to various accounts on the instructions of the ambassador. Accordingly, it has been revealed that not only the ambassador, but also higher and powerful persons are behind this fraud. Identities of those under investigation are being revealed.

 

CID sources said the other suspects too, would be arrested. The previous regime has been accused of sending state money to the accounts of various individuals and organizations, and most of those caught were the officials who had carried out the instructions by politicians and other powerful persons at the time to do so.

 

Those politicians and powerful persons are still at large, and if real justice is to be done, they too, should be produced before courts.