Lawyer Tamara opened 8 bank accounts using a fake ID and deposited money.

The CID informed Colombo Chief Magistrate Asanga S. Bodaragama yesterday (19) that lawyer Tamara Kumari Abeysinghe, who is being detained and questioned on the charge of aiding and abetting the main suspects in the incident of shooting and killing a person named Ganemulle Sanjeewa within the Colombo Magistrate's Court premises, has maintained eight (8) accounts in a state bank using a fake identity card.

It has been revealed during investigations that these eight accounts were opened in a state bank in the Kadawatha area using this fake identity card, which was prepared by only changing the date of birth, and after circulating millions of rupees through them, these accounts were closed. Furthermore, the CID also reported to the court that this suspect lawyer, Tamara Kumari Abeysinghe, residing at Mahabodhi Mawatha, Kadawatha, has conducted massive financial transactions amounting to approximately twenty-four crores (240 million) rupees through her legal account maintained in a private bank located in Kadawatha during the past three years.

This lawyer has been arrested based on information received from the suspect named Kehelbaddara Padma, who was apprehended in connection with the murder of Ganemulle Sanjeewa. She is being questioned regarding the provision of a penal code and two other law books for bringing the firearm used for the murder into the court premises. Furthermore, she is also undergoing intense questioning by the CID regarding the creation of black robes, ties with lawyer's emblems, and fake lawyer identity cards with her signature for the shooter named 'Commando Salintha' who committed the murder, and for Pinpura Dewage Ishara Sewwandi, who is considered the mastermind, to disguise themselves as lawyers, as well as the provision of official emblems for the vehicles they arrived in to enter the court complex.

Further investigations are also underway regarding the purchase of a Honda Vezel type motor car, worth approximately two and a half crore rupees, which was taken into police custody at the time of this suspect's arrest. Investigating officers pointed out to the court that the said motor car was purchased in the name of the suspect's son's father-in-law.

The CID submitted the relevant investigation progress report to the court when the case against former Sub-Inspector Niroshan Udith Udayashantha of the Gampaha Divisional Criminal Investigation Bureau, who is remanded on the charge of aiding and abetting the murder of Ganemulle Sanjeewa, was called. Prison officials presented the suspect former police inspector to the court via WhatsApp technology, and since further investigations are being conducted against him under the Prevention of Terrorism Act, the CID requested that he be further remanded. Considering the facts presented, the Chief Magistrate ordered the suspect to be further remanded until the 5th of next month.