Rs. 12 b fine, 102-year jail term for ex-tax officer
Friday, 9 May 2014 03:12
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The former Deputy Comm-issioner of the Inland Revenue Department G.S. Jayatillake was yesterday sentenced to a 102-year suspended jail term to be served for three years by the Colombo High Court over a VAT fraud.
High Court Judge Kumuduni Wickremasinghe also imposed a Rs. 11.97 billion fine on Jayatillake after he was found guilty on 34 charges in the case concerning default of VAT amounting to Rs. 3.9 billion.
