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 (Lanka-e-News, 2008 March 06, 5.30 PM) Rotten Vander, a company belonged to UNP MP Ravi Karunanayaka came to a settlement with Anthonian P. Stramiks, a European, to pay back a sum of Euro 144,000 (Rs. 22 million) belonged to Mr. Stramiks, the company was accused of misappropriating.
Mr. Karunanayaka's father-in-law Janesha Mahsri Jayawardhana is the Chairman of Rotten Vander Company. Mr. Karunanayaka's spouse Mrs. Melatin Viranthi Karunanayaka is a director of the company.
Rs. seven million was paid on the day the settlement was made and the balance Rs. 15 million was promised to be paid back within 15 months.
Colombo Fort Magistrate and Additional District Judge Namal Bandara heard the case. The CID filed the case following an investigation based on a complaint lodged by the victimized party.
The judge granted permission to CID to investigate the bank accounts of the company in relevance to the misappropriation of money.
The complainer invested Euro 200,000 in Rotten Vander Company keeping trust on then powerful Minister Ravi Karunanayaka in August 2002. The complainer deposited money in No: 1420815332 account of Nation's Trust Bank belonged to Rotten Vander Company. Janesha Mahsri Jayawardhana, as the Chairman of Rotten Vander Company and Mrs. Melatin Viranthi Karunanayaka as a director of the company signed the agreement with Mr. Stramiks.
After several months, dividends payments came to a standstill and all attempts of the complainer to contact the above mentioned persons failed. A check (No: 294951) issued by the company under the account number 0141000000469 of Nation's Trust Bank - Metropolitan Branch on 10 - 07 - 2005 to the value of Rs. 500,000 also returned, stated the complainer.
The complainer further stated that when the summons were issued to the directors of the company pertaining toh a case he filed in Colombo District Court against this fraud, the company had been closed and the same director board had launched a new company under the name of I.J.S. Global Lanka in the same address. |
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