Tuesday 7 March 2017

Neville Wanniarachchi's five bribery cases fixed for written submissions

By Shehan Chamika Silva

The Five bribery cases filed against Major Neville Wanniarachchi, a former security officer of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, had been fixed for April 25 to file written objections for the both defence and prosecution by Colombo Additional Magistrate Aruni Attigalle.

On an earlier occasion, the defence had submitted their preliminary objections over the allegation and in response the Commission yesterday filed counter objections to it, thereby; the Court fixed to consider both parties' objections in writing on the next date.

Wanniarachchi was accused of not declaring his assets and liabilities from 2010 to 2014 while he was a major in the army.

The Bribery Commission had charged him with five cases over committing an offence fell under the Non -assets declaration Act for not revealing his assets declaration in five consecutive years. 

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