Court orders police to question Gotabaya Rajapaksa
COLOMBO – The Fort Magistrate’s Court on Friday (11) ordered the Fort Police to record a statement from former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa in connection with the Rs 17.8 million recovered by protesters inside the President’s House on July 9.
Magistrate Thilina Gamage also instructed the police to conduct an investigation into the matter.
Gamage made the order in response to a request made by President’s Counsel Rienzie Arsekularatne, when the case filed against Fr. Jeewantha Peiris and several others, of forcibly entering the President’s House on the July 9, was taken up for inquiry.
Arsekularatne informed court that police had yet to record a statement from the former president about the money recovered from the President’s House.
Anti-government protesters who stormed the President’s House on July 9, stumbled upon the cash hoard in room number 4 of the colonial mansion. They then counted the cash, which amounted to Rs 17.8 million, and handed it over to the Fort Police.
Arsekularatne, appearing as defence counsel, in convincing the court of the importance of recording a statement from the former president, reiterated the necessity of having a comprehensive investigation into the recovery of money in order to ascertain the real purpose of the cash hoard and whether the money was kept as a means of bribery or not.
-ENCL
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