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Sakvithi & wife pay another installment of Rs.5mn

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1 month ago

August 25, 2023

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Popular English tutor Sakvithi Ranasinghe and his wife yesterday settled the second installment of Rs.5 million in the Colombo High Court after pleading guilty to the charges filed against them.

The amount was paid following a court order over the case filed against the two suspects for allegedly running an illegal financial institution without the approval of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka and accepting deposits over Rs.164 million from the people.

At a previous occasion, Ranasinghe and his wife pleaded guilty to the charges and agreed to pay the obtained amount in 20 equal installments. They settled the first installment on that day.

The Attorney General filed a revised charge sheet against the defendants for misappropriating an amount of 164,185,000 invested as deposits in a company called “Sakvithi Construction Company” in Nugegoda from January 01, 2006 to September 03, 2008.

When the case was taken up, Ranasinghe and wife were present in court.

The Attorney General had filed an indictment against Sakvithi Ranasinghe, his wife and eleven Board directors of Sakvithi House Construction Financial Institution. However, the Attorney General had previously decided to release the rest of the accused except Ranasinghe and wife from the case.

The next installment is to be paid on September 22. The Judge ordered the case to be taken up again on the same day.

Attorney-at-law Gamini Alwis appeared for the defendants along with Attorney-at-law Ravindra Senarath.

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Fmr. SDIG gets 5-yr. jail term

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2 hours ago

September 25, 2023

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The Ratnapura High Court has sentenced former Senior DIG Lalith Jayasinghe for five-year imprisonment for intimidating Kahawatte OIC not to arrest MP Premalal Jayasekera over a shooting incident.

Ratnapura High Court also ordered the convict to pay a fine of Rs. 20,000.

The shooting incident took place during the 2015 Presidential election campaign.

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Notice on issuing revenue licenses in WP

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6 hours ago

September 25, 2023

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The Department of Motor Traffic has decided to temporarily suspend the issuing of revenue licenses in the Western Province due to a system update.

According to the department, the services will be unavailable from this Wednesday (September 27) to next Monday (October 02).

The Motor Traffic Department said in a statement that vehicles of which revenue licenses are expiring from Tuesday, September 26 can be renewed until October 10, without fines.

Meanwhile, the online service for revenue licenses was temporarily suspended from midnight yesterday (September 24) and will remain so until Friday, October 06.

The department added that the temporary service suspension was due to an update on the system maintained by the Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka.

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CID ordered to hand over Schaffter’s remains to family

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6 hours ago

September 25, 2023

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The Colombo Additional Magistrate has ordered the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to hand over the remains of late businessman Dinesh Schaffter to his family as postmortem examinations have been concluded.

The specialist doctors’ committee appointed to compile a report on Schaffter’s death had informed the courts that the relevant investigation activities have been concluded, and that the remains of the late businessman can be released.

Furthermore, Additional Magistrate Rajindra Jayasuriya, also pointed out that the five-member expert committee headed by Prof. Asela Mendis, which was appointed by the court to compile a report on Schaffter’s death has informed the court that their judicial investigations have been completed.

Accordingly, the Additional Magistrate, who stated that the expert committee has requested the court to issue an order for the release of Schaffter’s remains, ordered the CID to hand over the body to his family under the supervision of Prof. Clifford Perera and Judicial Medical Officer P.R. Ruwanpura.

Later, the case was also ordered to be recalled on October 09, 2023.

(Source : adaderana.lk)