Sajin Vass remanded till 5 July

Former Parliamentarian-Sajin Vass Gunawardena was remanded till 5 July by the Colombo Chief Magistrate Gihan Pilapitiya after being arrested by the Police Criminal Investigations Department (CID) yesterday.

He was arrested under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act with allegations of failure to declare how he invested Rs.104 million in a private company and forcibly obtained Rs. 2 million from a businessman. 

Chief Magistrate ordered the CID to produce said businessman to the Court at the next date of the trial.

– Pic by Shehan Gunasekara

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