The Permanent High Court Trial at Bar has once again postponed the trial against former Secretary to the Ministry of Defence Gotabaya Rajapaksa and six others for December 8.
Gotabaya Rajapaksa along with the Land Reclamation and Development Authority’s (LRDA) Chairman Prasad De Silva, Badrawathie Kamaladasa, K. Attygalle, Saman Galapaththy, Mahinda Saliya and Srimathi Mallika were indicted for misappropriating LKR 48 million from funds belonging to the LRDA to construct the D.A. Rajapaksa Memorial Museum at Weeraketiya.
The Attorney General had earlier stated that Cabinet approval had not been taken by the accused in constructing the memorial.
The accused are currently out on a cash bail of LKR 100,000 with two sureties for LKR 1 million each.
The Permanent High Court Trial at Bar had earlier ordered the release of Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s impounded passport and ordered that the Controller General of the Department of Immigration and Emigration be notified to temporarily lift the travel ban imposed upon the former Secretary to the Ministry of Defence.
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