The Colombo Excessive Court docket has mounted June 17 to listen to the corruption case filed towards former Minister Kumara Jayakody by the Fee to Examine Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC).
The case was taken up at this time (Might 06) earlier than Excessive Court docket Decide Rashantha Godawela.
After contemplating the submissions made, the choose ordered the CIABOC to offer all needed paperwork required for the trial to the protection inside two weeks.
Thereafter, the choose concluded the pre-trial convention and ordered that the trial will start on June 17 with summons to be issued for 2 prosecution witnesses to seem earlier than courtroom on that date.
Jayakody faces expenses of offering an undue benefit to a personal firm throughout a procurement course of associated to carpeting work on the Hunupitiya warehouse advanced. His conduct, whereas serving as Procurement and Import Supervisor on the Lanka Fertilizer Firm in 2016, is claimed to have brought on a loss of over Rs. 8,85 million to the federal government.
