Post-mortem confirms suicide in death of suspended Treasury Assistant Director

Colombo, May 1 (Daily Mirror) - A four-member committee of forensic medical experts has confirmed that the suspicious death of a suspended Assistant Director of the Ministry of Finance was a suicide caused by self-inflicted injuries. 

The findings were released following a post-mortem examination conducted at the Kuliyapitiya Teaching Hospital this afternoon.

Ranga Rajapaksa, an Assistant Director attached to the Department of External Resources of the General Treasury, was found dead in his garden on April 30. At the time of his death, Rajapaksa was under suspension pending an investigation into a high-profile fraud case involving the misappropriation of USD 2.5 million belonging to the Ministry of Finance.