Mahinda’s BIL missing from home

THURSDAY, 29 OCTOBER 2015

The wife of former SriLankan Airlines chairman Nishantha Wickramasinghe, brother in law of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, has said that her husband had not come home for the last three years and she was not aware about his whereabouts.

Nishantha Wickremesinghe was summoned to the Presidential Commission of Inquiry to Investigate and Inquire into Serious Acts of Fraud, Corruption and Abuse of Power regarding irregularities that had taken place at Srilankan catering service during Mahinda Rajapaksa regime. He is expected to appear before PRECIFAC at 9.00 a.m. tomorrow (30th).

However, when officers of PRECIFAC visited Mr. Wickramasinhe’s residence in Mount Lavinia his wife had told them he had not come home for three years and that she was unaware of his whereabouts.

Meanwhile, former Civil Aviation Minister Priyankara Jayaratne’s statement was recorded yesterday.