Courtesy The Daily Mirror

Colombo Nov. 24 (Daily Mirror)- Former Minister of Fisheries Rajitha Senaratne and two others who were indicted before the Colombo High Court, for causing losses to the State when leasing out the Modara Fisheries Harbour to a private company in 2014, pleaded not guilty of the charges following the reading out of the charges against them by the interpreter mudliar of the court.

The case was called before Colombo High Court judge Navaratne Marasinghe and the indictments against the accused were read out before the open court by the mudliar to the accused and they pleaded not guilty of the charges.

In this case, former Minister of Fisheries Rajitha Senaratna and two others, former Chairman of the Ceylon Fisheries Harbour Corporation (CFHC) Upali Liyanage and its former Managing Director Neil Ravindra Munasinghe are indicted for committing financial losses to the State. 

They are accused of causing losses to the government by urging the Board of Directors of the Ceylon Fisheries Harbour Corporation to lease the Modera Fisheries Harbour to a private company for a scanty amount between the period from August 01 and November 01, 2014, while purposely knowing that a loss would be cause to the State by the transaction.