By Shehan Chamika Silva
Former Minister, Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan, also known as
Karuna Amman, who was arrested on charges of misusing a state vehicle by the
FCID, was ordered to be remanded till December 7 by Colombo Chief Magistrate
Gihan Pilapitiya today.
He was summoned before the Financial Crimes Investigation
Department (FCID) yesterday morning and subsequently was taken into Police
custody.
According to the prosecution, the suspect had received a
bulletproof vehicle in 2010 from the presidential Secretariat after being
elected as a parliamentarian.
However, following the conclusion of his time as a parliamentarian
in August 2015, he had not returned the vehicle given to him.
Based on the statement given to the FCID by the suspect, the
so- called vehicle had been sent to a vehicle repairing garage in Baticalo in
December 2014 by the suspect to fix some technical errors of the vehicle.
The suspect in his statement had also said that he had
informed certain authorities to take back the vehicle from his custody in
December 2015, but no actions were taken.
The FCID in October, 2016 had discovered the so-called
vehicle at a vehicle garage in Baticalo and initiated a broad investigation
into the vehicle keeping a magisterial inquiry at Chief
Magistrate Court.
The suspect was arrested over committing offences fell under
section 5(1) of the Public Property Act and sections 386 and 388 of the
penal code over dishonest misappropriation and criminal breach of trust.
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