Dulanjalee Premadasa questioned by CID -- UPDATES

UPDATES
Fake notes printed on A4 paper ... 
which Dulanjalee got

Further light has been shed on the the incident where Mrs. Dulanjalee Jayakody, daughter of former President Ranasinghe Premadasa who wanted to deposit a bundle of cash notes valued at 20 lakhs.

Rolik Augustus Prishantha Perera, a garment industry businessman alleged to have given this money to her is expected to be produced in courts today (Mar 28). The story is as follows, as so far revealed.




                            Prishantha Perera, a Managing Director of a garment concern and the family of Mrs. Dulanjalee had been jointly engaged in business activities. As such, Mrs. Dulanjalee too had invested funds in this well known garment industry which was underthe management of Prishantha Perera. In this case he was obliged to pay a share of the profits to her,which amounted to a figure of 20 lakhs. Yesterday, Mrs. Dulanjalee hadtaken twobags of 10 lakhs each as her share to the Kurunduwatta bank to be deposited which monies were supposed to have been handed to her by Prishantha Perera. On that occasion the staff at the counter on checking the notes found that they were counterfeit notes and had questioned her as to how she came into possession of the notes. At that point an argument too had erupted and promptly the management had taken steps to notify the police after which officers of the CID had arrived there. By that time Prishantha Perera who is alleged to have given this money too had come to the bank in Kurunduwatta and as revealed by the police media spokesman today, the former had come there armed with with a cheque amounting to Rs. 20 lakhs and the cheque had been written in favour of a private firm. It is understood that a house belonging to the aforesaid firm had been purchased by Mrs. Dulanjalee and he had come to the bank to pay the monies due for it. Mr. Ajith Rohana further said that accordingly, by the time officers of the CID  was present there, Prishantha Perera too was in the bank and as such both Dulanjalee and Prishantha were questioned and taken into custody. Though 400 notes amounting to 5,000 should be available for the sum of 20 lakhs; when checking the money it was found that there were 403 notes, which means that there were Rs. 15,000 in excess.It is thereby understood that after the suspect had handed the money to her, she had brought the money to the bank without counting them properly. Therefore it is difficult to assume that Mrs. Dulanjalee got involved in this racket with any motive at all. On the other hand, anybody would understand that on normally checking the notes they had been printed on common A4 sheets of paper and had been photocopied. As such, it is not possible to think that she had come there to deposit those notes with the knowledge that they were fake money, as emphasised by Mr. Ajith Rohana, at a media briefing.

Whatever it is, suspect Prishantha Perera on being questioned admitted that the cash notes were given by him to her and that they were fake notes, police media spokesman points out.

In the same way, when checking the house of the suspect in Pita Kotte, a further 424 notes of fake Rs. 5,000 notes printed in the same way, a printing machine, a laptop computer and a dongle with a number of other equipment were taken into custody by the police.

The police media spokesman further said that during last year, 311 notes to the value of Rs. 5,000 each, 1,002 notes to the value of Rs. 2,000 each, 2,733 notes amounting to Rs. 1,000 each, 1,088 notes valuing    Rs. 500 each, 1 note of Rs. 200, 119 notes of Rs. 100, 113 notes of Rs. Rs. 50 each and 1 note of Rs. 20 had been found by the CID in relation to printing of counterfeit cash notes.

In the same way, it is learnt that during the past period this year, a racket was busted where a cleverly conducted business of printing counterfeit notes in Biyagama area was discovered and the racketeers have transacted 2,388 notes of the denomination of Rs. 00; all of which amounted to Rs. 14,1900.

The media spokesman further mentioned that of the fake Rs. 500 notes, the CID was able to retrieve only 426 notes and as such, another 2,409 notes to the value of Rs. 500 are still in circulation among the public.

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