Dhammika Perera arrested! Nalaka Godahewa hides !!

Dec 04, 2015

The former director general and the deputy director of Security Exchange Commission (SEC) was arrested a short while ago by the Financial Crime Investigating Department (FCID). Along with him a director board member of the SEC Ronnie Ibrahim was also arrested. The previous former chairman of the SEC Dr. Nalaka Godahewa is also due to be arrested.

These two people are arrested for giving Rs. five million for MP. Namal Rajapaksa’s “Tharunyata Hetak” They have given this money to start a share market awareness project for the youths.

 

In the security and exchange commission’s act it is clearly stated that the money in the SES account can be used only for the share market purposes and cannot be used for other purposes. It even cannot be debited to the governments consolidated fund. In such a situation the former chairman of the Nalaka Godahewa and the director general Dhammika Perera using their signatures has granted Rs. five million to the Namal’s Tharunyata Hetak campaign. Meanwhile the FCID is also investigating a financial discrepancy committed by the former treasury and finance ministry secretary P.B. Jayasundara in the SEC during the period of a former chairman Indrani Sugathadasa.

 

It is reported that Nalaka Godahewa prior getting the information of the FCID’s arrest has avoided coming home and residing elsewhere.