FCID to check bank accounts of two companies

23 June 2016 12:21 pm

Colombo Additional Magistrate Nishantha Peiris today permitted the FCID to check the bank accounts of two private companies, Nimbus and Steel Impex.

The two companies are alleged to have provided funds to the then transport minister and the then SLTB for a tour of India between December 9 and 11of 2011.

This matter had cropped up during an inquiry into a case of violating tender procedures for the import of spare parts for SLTB buses by the two companies. (Shehan Chamika Silva)