By Shehan Chamika Silva
Security Director of Sri Lanka Cricket and Former Special
Task Force (STF) Commandant DIG K. L. M. Sarathchandra was today remanded till
December 6, by Colombo Chief Magistrate Gihan Pilapitiya on charges of misusing
a vehicle attached to the STF.
Sri Lanka Police Special Investigations Unit (SIU)
arrested DIG Sarathchandra, who was also the Coordinating Secretary of Security
Division of Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, on charges of misappropriating
a STF vehicle causing a Rs. 146, 690 financial loss to the State.
According to the prosecution the suspect had retired from
his position as the commandant of the STF in March 2011 and subsequently joined
as the coordinating secretary of the former president's security division.
During that period, he was given a driver, fuel allowance
and a vehicle (jeep) belonging to the STF for his transportation as the Coordinating
Secretary.
However, after January
8, 2015, his Coordinating Secretary position was automatically voided
following a new president being elected, but from January 21 to August 21, 2015 he had continuously
used the vehicle without returning it.
The SIU said that the former Commandant had committed
offences fell under the penal code and the Public Property Act.
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