Fort Magistrate Thilina Gamage yesterday (31) to remand a person who had defrauded Rs. 500,000 by promising to send another to Canada.
The suspect remanded is identified as a one Rasika Bandara from Polonnaruwa. It is said he used to be a media secretary to former President Maithripala Sirisena.
The Kompanna Veediya police urged the magistrate to remand the suspect as there is a possibility that evidence could be influenced otherwise.
The police informed the court that the suspect was summoned to the police over a complaint lodged by Mohommad Shafiq, who is the private secretary of Sri Lanka Freedom Party Polonnaruwa district leader Mr. Wasantha Jayawardena.
The suspect was subsequently arrested after reading the charges levelled against him.
(Source : Dinamina)