Former Minister Johnston Fernando and two others were released on bail by the Colombo Chief Magistrate over five cases filed by the Bribery Commission on the charges of deploying employees of the Cooperative Wholesale Establishment (CWE) for political activities from 2010 to 2014 and causing a loss of Rs.40 million to the government.
The Commission alleged that the suspects had committed the offence of Corruption under section 70 of the Bribery Act by deploying 152 employees of the CWE for political activities by paying them additional wages worth Rs.40, 121,055 from the CWE.
The suspects, former Minister Johnston Fernando, Eraj Fernando (former Chairman) and Mohammad Shakir ( former working director) were released on Rs. 50,000 cash bail for each five cases with two sureties worth five million each for every case by Chief Magistrate Gihan Pilapitiya.
After the suspects pleaded pleading not guilty to the charges, the magistrate put off the cases for October 27.
Earlier on May 19, the Bribery Commission filed five cases against the suspects and they were then noticed to appear in court yesterday to respond on the charges.
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