A set of documents which were held in court custody as the production items of the D.A. Rajapaksa Museum case originally filed against President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and six others were today ordered to be released to the Land Reclamation and Development Corporation (LRDC) by Colombo Permanent High Court-at-Bar.
The Colombo Permanent Trial-at-Bar ordered the release of these documents reserving LRDC’s rights to re-submit them if necessary.
On a previous occasion, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was ordered to be released from this case after taking into consideration the constitutional immunity of the President from lawsuit.
Subsequently, six accused-former members of the LRDC director board were also ordered to be released from the case on the basis that the case cannot proceed without the first accused.
State Counsel Udara Karunaratne appearing for the Attorney General sought an order to release these documents to the LRDC since the court has already terminated case proceedings against the seven accused.
In this case, the indictments were filed against seven accused former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa, former members of the director board of Land Reclamation and Development Corporation (LRDC) Chairman Prasad Harshan de Silva, Bhadra Udulawathi Kamaladasa, Sudammika Keminda Artigala, Saman Kumara Abraham Galappatti, Devage Mahinda Saliya and Srimathi Mallika Kumari Senadheera under seven counts for allegedly misappropriating LRDC funds to the tune of Rs.33.9 million.
