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CID takes over complaint against Colombo lawyer
The Attorney General's Department has ordered the CID probe a case where a Colombo lawyer has allegedly cheated a woman to the tune of Rs. 375,000 and a UNF Cabinet Minister had intervened on his behalf to stop local police investigating the complaint.

The Sunday Times last week reported this incident where the lawyer is alleged to have demanded Rs. 675,000 rupees from a woman promising to obtain bail from the Magistrate Court for her husband, who had been remanded for an offence under the Emigration and Immigration Law.

The woman later came to know that a magistrate court had no jurisdiction to grant bail for such an offence and demanded the money back from the lawyer.

The woman in her complaint to the Borella police said the lawyer was evading her after paying back Rs. 300,000. But the police could not make much headway when the Cabinet Minister is reported to have threatened a police officer who went to record a statement from the lawyer. The politician is alleged to have told the officer to drop the case as the lawyer was a close associate of him.

On Friday the CID recorded a detailed statement from the woman and three other persons for five hours.

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