Colombo Additional Magistrate Nishantha Peiris today issued an arrest warrant through Interpol on Oranella Iresha Silva, who is a suspect in the inquiry conducted under the Money Laundering Act for purchasing Rs. 100 mn worth shares of a company called Hellocorp, using allegedly ill-gotten funds by the Gowers Corporation headed by Namal Rajapaksa.
According to the FCID, the suspect resides abroad absconding prosecution.
There were three suspects, Namal Rajapaksa, Sudarshana Bandara and Nithya Senani, already in remand custody over the inquiry.
According to the FCID, the suspect Namal Rajapaksa had dealt with a company called 'Boston Capital' and given Rs. 15 million by himself and another Rs. 30 million through one Indika Karunajeewa to the chairman of that company, Mr. Rohan Abey Iriyagolla, in order to conceal the origin of the alleged ill gotten funds.
The prosecution alleged that according to the statements got from the chairman of the Boston Company, the given money was paid to Gowers Corporation and NR Consultancy Companies again, which are headed by Namal Rajapaksa, under the disguise of payments for the services obtained by the Boston Company.
The two transactions were found by the prosecution as offences that fell under the Money Laundering Act.
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