Party Chairman and Secretary remanded over bribe from candidate Janaka Ratnayake

United Lanka Podujana Party (Eksath Lanka Podujana Pakshaya) Chairman and Secretary were yesterday ordered to be remanded until 27 August for allegedly soliciting a bribe from the party’s Presidential candidate former PUCSL Chairman Janaka Ratnayake.

Six other suspects arrested in connection with the incident have been ordered released on personal bails of Rs. 2 million each.

On Wednesday a group of officials of the party including its Secretary were arrested by the officers of the Bribery Commission while accepting a bribe of Rs. 30 million from Ratnayake, the party’s Presidential candidate.

The suspects were arrested based on a complaint lodged by Ratnayake, on behalf of whom the security deposit was placed last morning as the party’s Presidential candidate.