By Magistrate orders probe: Rs. 144.4 million, paid for fake injections supplied to the Health Ministry, vanished overnight after being credited to a suspect’s account. The Attorney General’s Department demanded a CID investigation to track the missing money.
Deputy Solicitor General (DSG) Lakmini Girihagama told the court that the money was withdrawn from the suspect’s account immediately after it was deposited. Magistrate Lochana Abeywickrama, having considered the matter, ordered the OIC of the Illegal Assets or Property Investigation Division to investigate who had withdrawn the money and what had happened to it, and to report to court on January 10, when the case next comes up.
