Udyanga’s foreign bank remittances revealed

Financial Crimes Investigation Division (FCID) officers who probed the 16 bank accounts of Udayanga Weeratunga, the onetime Sri Lanka Ambassador to Russia, have made further findings.

Detectives say they have uncovered details of foreign remittances in these accounts and they included those from offshore accounts in two countries.

Among the banks from which such remittances have arrived into the accounts were those from Latvia and Hong Kong.

Colombo’s Chief Magistrate Lanka Jayaratne has directed that Mr Weeratunga’s Sri Lanka bank accounts be frozen.

The move follows an application to Court by the FCID, giving details of the account numbers and the balances remaining in each one of them.