Approval granted to probe assets of Sajin, Mahindananda and Priyath

20 February 2015 03:10 pm

Colombo Chief Magistrate Gihan Pilapitiya today permitted the CID to probe the assets of UPFA MP Sajin Vass Gunawardane, former Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage, former Sri Lanka Ports Authority Chairman Priyath Bandu and eight more relatives of theirs.

The approval was given to probe assets of nine persons at 81 state and commercial banks and financial institutions.

The CID informed the Magistrate that the investigations would be launched based on the Money Laundering Act.