Two former Presidents, former Deputy Minister – Salinda Dissanayake and former MP Manjula Dissanayake have been involved in the misuse of a land in Kurunegala, Deputy Minister Sunil Ranasinghe told Parliament today (June 19).
Salinda is the husband of Manjula Dissanayake.
The ex-Deputy Minister had obtained the land on lease and obtained a loan from the Lankaputhra Bank using it as a collateral. However the loan has been defaulted.
The Presidents in 2000 and 2007 were involved in reducing the monthly lease and later scrapping it, Ranasinghe added.