Colombo Fort Magistrate Thilina Gamage ordered the Fort Police today (11) to obtain a statement from former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in connection with the investigations into the sum of Rs. 17.8 million found in the President’s House.
The cash sum was found by the protesters who entered the President’s House during the struggle on July 09 in the office of the former President.
Magistrate Thilina Gamage ordered the Fort Police to obtain a statement from the former Head of the State considering a request made by President’s Counsel Rienzi Arsekularatne to issue an order to the Fort Police to record a statement from the former President to investigate whether it was received as a bribe or for any other matter.