Udaya Gammanpila remanded till July 1
June 18, 2016 03:41 pm
Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) leader MP Udaya Gammanpila has been remanded till July 01 by Colombo Fort Magistrate’s Court.
The UPFA Colombo District Parliamentarian was arrested this morning by the Police Special Investigations Unit (SIU) at his office in Pagoda Road, Nugegoda.
Gammanpila has been accused of using an allegedly fraudulent Power of Attorney to sell shares of a company while he had been questioned on several occasions by the SUI over this.
According to the complaint, the 4.1 million shares which is of Rs.110 million in value solely belonging to Australian businessman Brian Shadick had been fraudulently sold by Gammanpila.
He was arrested based on a complaint with regard to defrauding shares of a company using a forged power of attorney and produced at the Colombo Fort Magistrate’s Court today (18).
