HC Trial-at-Bar: Indictments filed against Gota, 6 others

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Former defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa and six others charged with misappropriating more than Rs.48 million in public funds belonging to the Land Reclamation and Development Corporations (SLRDC) to build the D.A. Rajapaksa Memorial at Medamulana.

They were indicted on 49 charges under the Public Property Act and under the Penal Code.

The accused are former defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa, SLRDC’s former chairman L. A. Prasad Harshana de Silva, former manager Badra Udulawathi Kamaladasa, Susammika Kaminda Attygalla, Saman Kumara Gallapathy, M.D. Mahinda Saliya and D.M. Mallika. (T. Farook Thajudeen)

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Nahfees Saturday, 25 August 2018 11:03 AM

This is what you called kangaroo courts. Magistrate withdraws , AG indicts. What a joke.

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BSP Saturday, 25 August 2018 11:47 AM

This is what he wanted. Brave soldier will appear now without seeking for stay orders and hide.

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Saeed Mohamed Saturday, 25 August 2018 11:58 AM

Only indictments will not help. The punishments have to be given to all of them.

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VJ Saturday, 25 August 2018 07:10 PM

I bet the case will be postponed for a month and another month and subsequently forgotten.

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Mihitha pradeep Sunday, 26 August 2018 10:06 AM

Public money is people's owned so politicians can't use it as they want.

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CITIZEN Monday, 27 August 2018 08:37 AM

Call the case and postpone to a date 6 months later! That is EXPEDITIOUS dispensation of the case!!

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