By Shehan Chamika Silva
The FCID today told court that during its investigations into the alleged transactions carried out by the "Krrish" company, the prosecution had revealed that the company had been involved in another questionable transaction of Rs.40 million to buy a property in Puttalam.
The FCID said the property had been sold to the company on a forged deed by four individuals who had been identified as, Nalaka Godahewa (former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission), Dinusha Peiris, Ashraff Bathiudeen and Sumith Rohitha Perera and that investigations were ongoing.
This deal was revealed when the FCID investigated a complaint made by JVP provincial councillor Wasantha Samarasinghe earlier.
Meanwhile, the FCID said based on a statement given by the Sujani Bogollagama, the accountant for Carlton Super Sports Ltd., where MP Namal Rajapaksa was charged with misappropriating Rs.70 million given to him by the Krrish company to conduct a rugby tournament, two others identified as Roni Ibrahim and Rukshan Fernando were summoned by the FCID to record their statements.
On the special facts revealed from the Sujani Bogollagama in the interrogation, Roni Ibrahim and Rukashan Fernando had the awareness as to how the given alleged money was spent by the CSS ltd, Prosecution said.
The FCID told Fort Magistrate Lanka Jayaratne that said the investigation report as been sent to the Attorney General for his opinion. The case was fixed for October 31.
The main suspect, Mr. rajapaksa was earlier remanded over the charges under sections 386,389 and 400, “Dishonest misappropriation, Criminal breach of trust, Cheating”, of the Penal Code and under the Money Laundering Act.
According to the FCID, Mr. Rajapaksa had connections to the Board of Directors of the Krish company.
The money was said to have been deposited into an account belonging to Ceylon Premier Sports Chairman Nimal Perera and later the money was paid out to Mr. Rajapaksa.
According to Defence lawyers, the tournament was organized by the Ceylon Premier Sports (CPS) and the Ceylon Super Sports (CSS). CPS was dealing with all the ten teams while the CSS was handling the event.
The FCID believes that Mr. Rajapaksa had transferred Rs.50 million to the account of a Bangladeshi known as Al Saman. Later Mr. Rajapaksa had got it back from Al Saman and obtained another Rs.50 million from a bank as a loan to purchase the company Hello Corp committing a crime that comes under the Money Laundering Act.
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