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Wolverhampton Uni. yet to respond to CID queries
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By Ranjith Padmasiri
Mail sent by the Criminal Investigations Department to the Wolverhampton University in the United Kingdom, seeking information about former President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s visit to the university, has failed to draw a response so far.
The CID sent a set of questions by email on February 4 and also by airmail – EMS Speed Post – addressed to Wolverhampton University Secretary Christine Fraser and to an assistant executive.
A copy of the mail has also been sent to the vice chancellor of the university.
The CID is trying to ascertain whether the invitation letter from the university to the then President Wickremesinghe to attend his wife’s induction ceremony was an official letter or one sent in a personal capacity.
Meanwhile, former President’s Secretary Saman Ekanayake, who has been named as the second accused in the case where the former President is charged with misappropriation of Rs. 16.6 million in state funds during the UK visit, was produced in the Fort Magistrate courts this week and re-remanded until February 18.
Mr Ekanayake’s counsel, Kalinga Indatissa, told courts that the estimates approved had been prepared by the then Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner in the UK, Saroja Sirisena.
He said Mr Ekanayake had a role in preparing the estimates, and they had been sent to the Foreign Affairs Ministry, and if there was a question arising from the estimates, the ministry should have rejected them.
The court was told that nine questions had been sent to the university.
Additional Solicitor General Dileepa Peiris told courts that the university was yet to respond to the questions. The case will be taken up on February 18.
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