The Colombo Justice of the Peace’s Court docket has rejected a request by the Felony Investigation Division (CID) to impose abroad journey bans on 04 individuals together with racing star – Dilantha Malagamuwa, over an alleged land fraud.
The opposite 03 people named within the request had been Shantha Vithana Gamage, Desmond Amarasinghe and Saman Jayaweera.
The CID instructed court docket that the 04 individuals had been being investigated over an alleged large-scale scheme involving the preparation of cast deeds and the illegal acquisition and sale of land in Colombo and different areas and identified that the people’ departure from the nation might hamper the continuing investigation.
Colombo Further Justice of the Peace Lahiru Silva as a substitute directed the CID to take steps to call the 04 people as suspects within the investigation earlier than in search of journey restrictions towards them.
The investigation pertains to the alleged sale of a 43-perch property on Barnes Place, Colombo 7, valued at greater than Rs. 2.5 billion, for Rs. 01 billion to a widely known automobile gross sales firm.
CID officers instructed court docket that preliminary investigations had revealed that 03 of the 04 people had allegedly shared cash acquired from the sale, whereas Malagamuwa had allegedly acquired 14 luxurious automobiles as a substitute of money.
The CID mentioned additional investigations are being carried out into the people who allegedly acquired the cash and bought automobiles.
An 80-year-old resident of Pannipitiya, Ariyapala Dissanayake, who was arrested in reference to the case, is at present in remand custody. The Justice of the Peace additionally referred to as for a medical report on Dissanayake, who is claimed to be unwell.
