The Permanent High Court-at-Bar has decided to commence hearing the case filed against the former Secretary to the Ministry Defence, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, in connection to the misappropriation of public funds used to construct the D.A. Rajapaksa Museum, on the 19th of June.
The order was delivered by the three-judge bench comprising judges Sampath Abeykoon, Sampath Wijeratne, and Champa Janaki Rajaratne this morning (23).
The Special High Court also issued summons on four defendants of the case to appear before the court on the 19th of June.
The Attorney General had filed the case against Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the former Chairman of Land Reclamation and Development Authority (LRDA) Prasad Harshana de Silva and five others for allegedly misappropriating state funds amounting to Rs 49 million for the construction of the D.A. Rajapaksa Museum and Memorial in Medamulana.
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