e mërkurë, 23 janar 2008

Ravi, wife and father-in-law pickpocket Rs. 20 million from a foreigner

Colombo Fort Magistrate and Additional District Judge Namal Bandara ordered the CID yesterday (21) to probe the bank accounts of a company belonged to UNP Colombo district MP Ravi Karunanayaka over an alleged misappropriation of Euro 145,000 invested in the company by a foreign national.

CID made a request from the court to probe the accounts based on a complaint lodged by Antonian P. Strawicks who is a resident of Sri Lanka for 22 years. He ran a tourist hotel in the name Hotel Lalanika in Ambalangoda until 1997 and later sold the property to one T.R.R. Rajan of Katugasthota, Kandy in 1997.

With the support of the property sales broker Shivantha Chinthaka Rodrigo, the complainer has approached Janesha Mahasri Jayawardhana identified himself as the father-in-law of then Minister Ravi Jayawardhana and invested Euro 200,000 in a company named Rotten Vander belonged to the Minister.

He has invested money in the company with the promise of monthly dividends and assistance to obtain residential visa. Janesha Mahasri Jayawardhana and Melatine Viranthi Karunanayaka who appeared as MP Karunanayaka's wife signed the agreement on behalf of the company as the Chairman and a director respectively.

After several months, paying dividends came to an end all attempts of the complainer to contact the above mentioned persons failed. A check (No: 294951) issued by the company under the number 0141000000469 account of Nations Trust Bank Metropolitan Branch on 10 - 07 - 2005 to the value of Rs. 500,000 also returned.

The complainer said that while he filed a case in Colombo District Court against this fraud, the company was closed and a new company under the name of I.J.S. Global Lanka was launched in the same place under the same directorate.

CID has recorded statements from ten individuals and sought the permission from courts to probe the relevant accounts of Seylan Bank - Ambalangoda Branch, Nation Trust - York Street Branch and Commercial Bank - Bristol Street Branch. Court granted permission and informed the CID to resubmit the complaint after the investigation.

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