Fraudulent assets Sajin before court
Fraudulent assets Sajin before court
By Niranjala Ariyawansha-2015-03-21
The Bribery Commission filed a case in the Colombo Magistrate's Court yesterday charging Sajin de Vaas Gunawardene, former monitoring MP for External Affairs, with fraudulent accumulation of assets.
The case filed in Court yesterday came in sequel to investigations conducted into allegations against Vass Gunawardene by the Bribery Commission. Earlier on 22 January, they asked the Immigration Controller Nihal Ranasinghe to impound Gunawardene's passport to prevent him leaving the country.
Damayanthi Gunawardene, the former monitoring MP's wife, was also questioned by the CID on allegations of money laundering but no outcome is yet known on those investigations.
Dilrukshi Dias Wickremasinghe, Director General of the Bribery Commission told Ceylon Today that the case was filed under the Declaration of Assets and Liabilities Act No 126 of 1975
She said the Commission had received many complaints against the MP relating to alleged unlawful accumulation of assets.
Commission sources said the case filed yesterday related to only one of the allegation filed against him.
Last week, Gunawardene was summoned by the Commission and quizzed for over six hours. He was first questioned on 3 March.
