Former Minister Wimal Weerawansa's brother Sarath Weerawansa, who was arrested by the FCID over misusing a government vehicle causing Rs.10.5 million financial lost to the Government, was ordered to be further remanded till September 21 by the Colombo Fort Magistrate Lanka Jayaratne.
The FCID told court that the Presidential Secretariat in 2009 had permitted to obtain 12 vehicles for the parliamentarians elected from the NFP.
The suspect, who was not a parliamentarian at that moment, had illegally obtained one vehicle of it and used it for his personal purposes until 2015 causing Rs. 8.9 million financial lost to the government.
Later in 2012, the suspect had been appointed as the private secretary to the then Minister of Housing and Construction and had obtained a fuel allowance of Rs. 1.6 million under the disguise that he would use his private vehicle for ministerial works while already using a vehicle given by the PS.
The FCID also said that There was a huge finacial misappropriation tajen place while using the fuel allowance book pertaining to the highly protected vehicle given to the Minister Weerawansa by the PS. The prosecution said using that fuel allowance book the suspect and few others had illegally obtained fuel for some other vehicles.
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