Pushpa Rajapaksa Foundation faces probe

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Magistrate Priyantha Liyanage of the Colombo Fort Magistrate yesterday ordered the managers of two state banks and a private bank to release the account details of the Pushpa Rajapaksa Foundation - which is named after UPFA Parliamentarian Basil Rajapaksa’s wife - to the Police Financial Fraud Investigations Unit. According to reports, the Police Financial Fraud Investigations Unit began investigating the alleged transfer of $ 150,000 to the account of the Pushpa Rajapaksa Foundation after the provision of false information. The funds allegedly belong to the Sri Lanka Ports Authority. At courts the police revealed that the Pushpa Rajapaksa Foundation had been registered as an NGO on 24 November in 2010. The police unit informed the court that investigations were being made into the fraudulent withdrawal of the money from its account at the main branch of Peoples Bank. Furthermore, investigations are being carried out to find out how the NGO received the money, how it was used and the activities the organisation engaged in.

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