CMC BLACKLISTS ORGANISERS OF ENRIQUE CONCERT

The Colombo Municipality will not permit this company to hold any more events in Colombo even if it paid what was owed by way of taxes

The Colombo Municipality yesterday blacklisted Live Events. the company which organised the Enrique Iglesias concert at the CR&FC Grounds.

The main stakeholders of the company are former cricketing stars Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardane. The Municipality said it would not allow the company to organise any other events in Colombo in the future.

Colombo Mayor A.J.M. Muzzamil told a media briefing that they would also take legal action against the organizers if they failed to pay Rs.29 million in taxes owed to the municipality.

“We will not allow the company to hold any other event within the Colombo Municipal limits even if it settles the payment owed to the CMC,” he said.

Mr. Muzzammil said the organizers did not inform the CMC prior to organizing the event and said the CMC asked them to brief the CMC about the show.

“The CMC could have banned the live concert by Latin America music idol Enrique Iglesias held at the CR & FC Grounds, but we didn’t do so. The ticket holders could have burnt the CR & FC if we did so and would have tarnished the image of the country,” he said

Mr. Muzzamil said all the tickets had to be approved and sealed by the CMC but only a few tickets had been given to the CMC for the approval and sealing.

“The organizers had informed us that they will only issue 7,130 tickets, but we have evidence and information to prove that they had issued more than 10,000 tickets. Therefore they had committed a financial fraud.