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Industrial Development Board (IDB) supplied Brass and Copper to 'Colossus', a company owned by Easter Sunday suicide bomber Insaf Ahmad Ibrahim during the period between 2017 and 2019, although the company had failed to operate within the given criteria, Sarath Udayasiri, Marketing Director of IDB informed the PCoI probing Easter Sunday attacks today.

Testifying before the Commission, Udayasiri said that the IDB had supplied Brass and Copper to ‘Colossus’ at concessionary rates. He told the Commission that 'Colossus' procured a considerable amount of scrap brass between 2017 and 2019, and this had affected the other small and medium scale enterprises. "Colossus received 35% out of the total Copper and Brass that were accumulated between 2017 and 2019," the witness said.

Udayasiri added that by the year 2018, the turnover of 'Colossus' exceeded Rs. 600 million. "So it was no longer a medium scale company. In 2017, it was registered as one," the witness said.

The witness further said when 'Colossus' had been registered in 2017 and it also did not have the certification of the Grama Niladari of the area where the factory was located.(Yoshitha Perera)


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  • Ralaharamy Thursday, 02 July 2020 06:51 AM

    Any minister can give instruction to favor his henchmen, but as a responsible officer, it is your duty to make sure that the paper work is properly completed. Where is your natural instinct to protect your position? Did you have a premonition that this project will produce bombs? Were there any other firms, who were given special treatment at your discretion?

    Anura Nanayakkara Thursday, 02 July 2020 08:29 AM

    This is a classic case where a Govt. minister providing raw material ( copper) to another Muslim organisation to produce Bombs!! Now the Muslim minister play the role of innocent guy and try to win a seat in parliament again!! Dirty politics and dirty politicians of Sri Lanka!!8

    BigEars Thursday, 02 July 2020 09:43 AM

    Under whose ministry was the IDB and who signed the documents?

    Mudalali Thursday, 02 July 2020 11:39 AM

    Why the materials supplied in such scale? Who gave such instructions?

    Sinna Friday, 03 July 2020 09:41 PM

    Government is there to improve quality of life of its citizens by helping them to what they can, but Yahapalanaya fellows, distroyed pepper growers living by importing from Vietnam and export as Srilankan pepper,devastated life of craftsmen not giving enough copper to them but to large scale factory belong to ISIS bomber

    MN Saturday, 04 July 2020 10:28 PM

    PCoI needs to bring down, one who ordered to do such a discrepancy and who is the political hand behind,its up to you, his eminence cardinal Ranjith, CID might stop investigation before reaching this powerful politician L


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