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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gonta999" data-source="post: 9919584" data-attributes="member: 255981">Mervyn’s ex-Secy. remanded for fraud April 21, 2011, 9:35 pm    <img src="http://www.island.lk/modules/modPublication/article_title_images/235525531c1-6.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />   by A. J. A. Abeynayake  Buddhika  Jayasinghe (Right) Former Coordinating Secretary  (Parliamentary  Affairs) of Public Relations Minister Mervyn Silva walks out of  the  Fort Magistrate Courts yesterday. Pic by Kamal Bogoda  Fort  Magistrate Lanka Jayaratne yesterday ordered Public  Relations Minister  Mervyn Silva’s former Coordinating Secretary J. M. Buddhika  Jayasinghe  remanded till May 04.  Jayasinghe is charged  defrauding Rs 9,850,000 from a bank  account of a US businessman who  arrived in Sri Lanka to commence an agri product  and hotel project. The  businessman had arrived in Sri Lanka in 2005 and when he  had left the  country in June the same year the suspect had forged his signature  and  obtained the money. The suspect was then working as an investment  promotion  officer of the Board of Investment. He had been in charge of  observing a project  planned by the businessman in Nuwara Eliya and had  copied a signature of the  businessman put on a cheque issued for the  project.  On his return, the businessman had  seen the reduction of money  in his account and lodged a complaint with  the Criminal Investigations  Department.   The  CID, after investigations, had submitted a report to the  Fort  Magistrate Courts and the Magistrate had ordered the suspect be arrested   and produced before Court. The court had later issued a warrant for  his arrest.  The suspect had evaded arrest for  years but was caught red  handed, along with several others, by a  special Police unit, when collecting  extortion money from a trader of  Grandpass, and remanded.  Attorney-at-Law  Jayantha Weerasinghe, appearing for Buddhika  Jayasinghe, told the Court  that his client was serving in the capacity of  coordinating secretary  to Public Relations Minister Mervyn Silva until March 31,  and was a  heart patient who had been subjected to a bypass operation therefore  he  should be granted bail.  Police Inspector Anura  de Silva, of the CID, told the Court that  the suspect had been evading  police for years and changed the names and  whereabouts until the CID  came to know of his arrest at Grandpass through  newspapers, therefore  he opposed releasing the suspect on bail.  After  considering the request and records of warrants issued for  the  suspect, Magistrate ordered he be further remanded till May 4.</blockquote>

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