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Another Rajapaksa Loyalist Held For Fraud. A former senior minister and close aide of ex-Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has been arrested for fraud, police said on Tuesday.
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Colombo: A former senior minister and close aide of ex-Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has been arrested for fraud, police said on Tuesday.
The Colombo chief magistrate ordered that Johnston Fernando be remanded until Wednesday and be produced before a magistrate at Kurunegala, his northwestern provincial base.
Fernando was arrested by police's Financial Crime Investigation Unit (FCIU) over alleged financial impropriety at the state wholesale entity Cooperative Wholesale Establishment (CWE) during Rajapaksa's rule.
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