By Shehan Chamika Silva
National Freedom Front Spokesman Mohammed Muzammil, was ordered to be released on bail by the Fort Magistrate Lanka Jayaratne over the inquiry conducted against him for allegedly misappropriating Rs. 6.1 million public funds by misusing a vehicle attached to the Presidential Secretariat between 2009-2014.
The magistrate released the suspect on cash bail of Rs. 25,000 with two sureties of Rs. one million each.
Considering the exceptional circumstance of illness of the suspect's child based on the doctor’s reports, the magistrate granted bail for the suspect.
The FCID filed charges under the section 5(1), ‘Dishonest Misappropriation, Criminal Breach of Trust, Cheating, Forgery and Falsification of Accounts’ of the Public Property Act and the Section 3, that ‘Any transaction derived from illegal activity’, of the Money Laundering Act.
The suspect was also charged with the misappropriation of property, abatement, criminal breach of trust and cheating under the Sections 100, 386, 389 and 400 of the Penal Code.
The prosecution said the suspect was given a vehicle from the Presidential Secretariat in 2009 under the previous government and following his defeat in 2010 parliamentary elections he was appointed as an Acting Director of the Sri Lanka Engineering Corporation.
The Police said the suspect had not returned the vehicle, he obtained from Presidential Secretariat in 2010 and deceived the Engineering Corporation by stating that the vehicle he obtained from the Presidential Secretariat was his private vehicle and on this basis was re-imbursed his traveling expenses by the Engineering Cooperation. The Police told the money had been deposited under the name of the suspect’s wife.
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