Wednesday, 27 January 2021 - 16:42
Former directors of ETI Finance, Nalaka Edirisinghe, Jeewaka Edirisinghe, Asanka Edirisinghe and Deepa Edirisinghe who filed anticipatory bail applications prior to their arrests have withdrawn the bail application today (27).
They had submitted the bail application before the Colombo Chief Magistrate s Court.
The Hiru News court correspondent stated that Colombo Chief Magistrate Mohamed Mihail dismissed the applications today (27)
The group was arrested for the second time on 08 January in connection with the alleged financial fraud of Rs. 6.4 billion and was granted bail on 15 January.
Investigations have also revealed that the deposits in the Central Bank of Sri Lanka have been misused for personal enjoyment by the former Board of Directors while maintaining undisclosed accounts.
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by Senior DIG (Rtd.) Edward Gunawardene
In recent weeks many interesting articles have appeared in the Sunday Island on the Burghers of Ceylon. The contributions by Godwin Perera, Laksman Ratnapala, A. J. Perera, Sumith de Silva and Manel Fonseka have rekindled in me memories of the many public figures of the Burgher community, particularly police officers at the time I joined the police in the late fifties of the last century. The mix-up in photos of Col. F. C. de Saram and Canon R. S. de Saram and the references to Burgher bits were indeed amusing.
When I joined the police, the induction process of new entrants to gazetted rank, required probationary ASPs to be introduced by appointment to senior public officers including the Governor General, Prime Minister, Chief Justice, Attorney General etc. As such, with my batchmates before long I was able to meet several amiable public servants of the Burgher community.
DRUG TRAFFICKING PNB OFFICERS FURTHER REMANDED
DRUG TRAFFICKING PNB OFFICERS FURTHER REMANDED
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Colombo (News 1st); 17 suspects including 13 personnel attached to the Police Narcotic Bureau arrested on charges of trafficking drugs, were further remanded to the 25th of January 2021, by Colombo Chief Magistrate Mohamed Mihar.
The suspects were arrested and charged for re-selling seized drugs to traffickers and aiding in trafficking drugs.
The 16th and 17th suspects, who are in remand custody were ordered to be produced to the Colombo Chief Magistrate on the 25th of January 2021.
Counsel for the two suspects, who are boat owners told the Court on Monday (11) their clients are prepared to provide a confidential statement to the Chief Magistrate on the drug operation as they prepared the boats for the movement of drugs in and out of the country on the instructions of the senior police officers.
Three suspects including a Nigerian National were arrested by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) over a financial fraud racket via hacking email accounts last Wednesday.