FCID to probe Namal’s female friend

Mar 04, 2016

Investigations into the payment of a Rs. 1.5 million allowance to an air hostess who had been attached to the president’s office during the Rajapaksa regime are to be handed over to the FCID. 

She had been attached there due to her close friendship with, and with the knowledge of, MP Namal Rajapaksa. Only a serving air hostess can be paid such an allowance, but she had received it in violation of that requirement.

 

The presidential investigation commission has found this during investigations.

 

Due to the wants of Namal, the then secretary to the president Lalith Weeratunga had informed in writing that she be paid the Rs. 1.5 million allowance. She had gained the opportunity to get posted to the president’s office and to receive this allowance due to her close friendship with Namal. The president’s office had paid her the allowance for three years.

 

With the overthrowing of the government, she was removed from the president’s office and was returned to SriLankan Airlines, where she is a supervisor of air hostesses now.