Sugeeshwara Bandara further remanded

By Bhagya Silva

Colombo, July 8 (Daily Mirror) - Colombo Fort Magistrate Pasan Amarasena today ordered former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's former Private Secretary, Sugeeshwara Lenin Bandara, to be further remanded till July 22 over allegations of criminal misappropriation of funds allocated under the Presidential Expenditure Head.

The case was taken up before the Colombo Fort Magistrate's Court, where the Magistrate rejected the suspect's bail application and ordered that he be further remanded.

According to investigators, Bandara is alleged to have misused public funds by drawing salaries and allowances from the Presidential Expenditure Head while simultaneously serving as former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's Private Secretary and as Director of Special Projects to former President Ranil Wickremesinghe during the period from July 14, 2022, to December 21, 2024.

Bandara was arrested by officers of the Central Crimes Investigation Bureau on June 18 and produced before court in connection with the alleged financial irregularities.