The corruption case filed against former Minister Keheliya Rambukwella and former State Printing Corporation (SPC) Chairman was yesterday fixed for trial on March 8 by the Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court.
This is for allegedly causing an unlawful loss of Rs. 230,984 to the government by using SPC funds to pay the former minister’s mobile phone bill for a month.
When the case was taken up before Chief Magistrate Lanka Jayarathne, Attorney-at-law Niroshan Siriwardene, appearing on behalf of MP Rambukwella, informed the court that his client could not appear before the court due to Parliamentary sittings.
The Bribery Commission alleged that the former minister had induced the CPC Chairman to pay his mobile phone bill from March 15, 2012, to April 14, 2012, causing an unlawful loss to the government, while serving as the Mass Media Minister.
The Bribery Commission had named former SPC Chairman Jayampathi Bandara Heenkenda as an accused for aiding and abetting to commit this offence.
The Director General of the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption filed this case against the former minister and the former SPC Chairman under section 70 of the Bribery Act on three counts.
The Magistrate fixed the trail for March 8.
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