Shashi Weerawansa arrested

By Umesh Moramudali- 2015-02-23 

 
Shashi Weerawansa, the wife of former Cabinet Minister Wimal Weerawansa, was arrested yesterday for having obtained a diplomatic passport fraudulently.
According to the Police Media Unit, Weerawansa was arrested at a private hospital in Malabe yesterday evening. Meanwhile, former minister and National Freedom Front (NFF) Leader Wimal Weerawansa is to appear before the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) today (23) morning.

A high ranking police officer told Ceylon Today that the police are conducting a confidential investigation into Shashi Weerawansa's sudden illness. She was charged with making two passports illegally and the CID is conducting investigations into the issue.
The CID has commenced an investigation into the controversial diplomatic passport obtained by Shashi Weerawansa, by allegedly producing false information.
The CID had deployed seven police teams in Kandy, Gampaha and Colombo to search for and arrest Sashi Weerawansa.
Sashi Weerawansa is alleged to have obtained diplomatic and general passports by submitting birth certificates with false names and dates of birth.

She had applied for a diplomatic passport in 2010 by submitting false personal information which was different to what appeared in her previous passport that expired on 24 May, 2009.
There was much criticism in political circles over the police not arresting the former minister's wife when there were serious allegations with concrete evidence.