Thursday, 8 December 2016

Former SLT officer remanded




By Shehan Chamika Silva

A retired General Manager of Sri Lanka Telecom, who was arrested by the CID on charges of incurring a huge financial loss to the SLT while operating "Smart Dial Plus" project was ordered to be remanded till December 15 by Colombo Chief Magistrate Gihan Pilapitiya today.

According to the prosecution the suspect, Ajith Devendra Silva who as a renowned telecommunication officer at SLT, had operated the so- called project and caused allegedly a $46,928 loss to the SLT by distributing IDD services via its Computer base.

The CID told court that so far its investigations revealed Rs. 400,000 of misuse occurred while providing IDD services to four specific numbers.

They alleged that there were more numbers involved in this fraud and investigations are under way.




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