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16-587: FCID was established by Minister of Public Order and Christian Affairs John Amaratunga on 26 February 2015 under the instructions from the Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and it is headed by the DIG Ravi Waidyalankara. Financial Crimes Investigation Division is directly accountable for carrying out investigations throughout the island into serious financial fraud , misuse of state assets or funds, cases of

32-557: A Magistrate Court until further hearings. The Financial Crimes Investigation Division was formed on 26 February 2015 under the purview of Sri Lanka Police Service. FCID is directly responsible in handling the investigations on the corruption charges against the Rajapaksa Administration and the public service that involved in large-scale corruption which led to destabilize the Government revenue . However there

48-890: A nature that require intellectual skills and complex detection. At times, the FCID carries out investigations pertaining to Government revenue . The FCID agencies are highly skilled in encountering the Major Financial Crimes, Frauds, Unsolicited Mega Projects, Major Financial Crimes against Public Property, Money Laundering, Terrorist financing and financial transaction, Illegal financial Transaction, Unlawful enrichments, and Offences on Financial Crimes against National Security. The FCID has utmost powers to arrest civilians , government workers and legislator from anywhere in Sri Lanka without getting approval from Attorney General or DIG of this unit. The suspect can be remanded by

64-757: Is a Sri Lankan politician and lawyer. He is a representative of Gampaha District for the United National Party in the Parliament of Sri Lanka . He resides in Kandana .He was the minister Tourism Development, Christian Religious Affairs and Land in the United National Party led government. He also held the powerful ministry of Interior in the 2001-2004 United National Party government. Educated at De Mazenod College, Kandana and at Saint Joseph's College, Colombo . He studied law at

80-414: The 1st presidential election held on 20 October 1982 for the district: Results of the 2nd presidential election held on 19 December 1988 for the district: Results of the 3rd presidential election held on 9 November 1994 for the district: Results of the 4th presidential election held on 21 December 1999 for the district: Results of the 5th presidential election held on 17 November 2005 for

96-644: The Ceylon Law College and became a proctor in July 1966. He set up his legal practice in Negombo , becoming a Notary Public and a Justice of the Peace and Unofficial magistrate . Amaratunga joined the United National Party and became active in local politics. In 1978, while serving as chairman, Sri Lanka Leather Corporation; he succeeded Shelton Jayasinghe , Minister of Posts and Telecommunications as

112-785: The Member of Parliament for the Wattala electorate following the sudden death of the later. He successfully held his seat in parliament in the successive elections from the Gampaha District . During his political career he held several appointments that included; In 2018 John Amaratunga was accused of aiding the fraudulent acquisition of a property worth Rs. 7 Billion from an elderly couple, as well as holding them hostage. Eighty-six year-old Wimalsen Fernando and his wife Shiranie Fernando learnt that their property in Gregory's Road, Colombo

128-515: The 225 members of the Sri Lankan Parliament and had 1,785,964 registered electors in 2020. The district is Sri Lanka's Electorate Number 02. The Gampaha Electoral District consists of the following polling divisions: A: Wattala B: Negombo C: Katana D: Divulapitiya E: Mirigama F: Minuwangoda G: Attanagalla H. Gampaha I. Ja-Ela J. Mahara K. Dompe L. Biyagama M. Kelaniya Results of

144-445: The FCID activities over investigations carried out against his cabinet members Minister A.H.M. Fowzi using a car belonging to another ministry and appointment given to his daughter by former state minister Priyankara Jayaratne. It is also revealed that government spends Rs.1.2 million monthly to maintain the FCID. John Amaratunga John Anthony Emmanuel Amaratunga ( Sinhala : ජෝන් ඇන්තනී එමානුවෙල් අමරතුංග) (born 21 May 1940)

160-443: The district: Results of the 10th parliamentary election held on 16 August 1994 for the district: Results of the 11th parliamentary election held on 10 October 2000 for the district: Results of the 12th parliamentary election held on 5 December 2001 for the district: Results of the 13th parliamentary election held on 2 April 2004 for the district: Results of the 14th parliamentary election held on 8 April 2010 for

176-450: The district: Results of the 15th parliamentary election held on 17 August 2015: Results of the 16th parliamentary election held on 5 August 2020: Results of the 1st Western provincial council election held on 2 June 1988 for the district: Results of the 2nd Western provincial council election held on 17 May 1993 for the district: Results of the 3rd Western provincial council election held on 6 April 1999: Results of

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192-416: The district: Results of the 6th presidential election held on 26 January 2010 for the district: Results of the 7th presidential election held on 8 January 2015: Results of the 8th presidential election held on 16 November 2019: Results of the 9th presidential election held on 21 September 2024: Preferential votes Results of the 9th parliamentary election held on 15 February 1989 for

208-508: The investigations or that to threatening the lawyers. Instead he claimed he only asked them to leave calling them trespassers. Gampaha Electoral District Gampaha electoral district is one of the 22 multi-member electoral districts of Sri Lanka created by the 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka. The district is conterminous with the administrative district of Gampaha in the Western province . The district currently elects 19 of

224-402: Was fraudulently acquired by a person named Prasad Deshapriya Vitharana of Kalubowila. When the property was visited by the couple they were held hostage by Amaratunga's guards. When the couple's lawyers attempted to enter the property they met Amaratunga in the property who used abusive language to threaten them and attempted to evict them; but the lawyers forced their way to the couple. The couple

240-599: Was number of complaints against several high profile ministers of the Sirisena cabinet also. FCID has also arrested several high profile ministers of Rajapaksa Administration including former Economy Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa . The FCID also received training from UK's Serious Fraud Office after the Sri Lankan government requested international assistance against corruption in 2015. In 2017 July, President Maithripala Sirisena expressed his disapproval on

256-500: Was threatened and Vitharana had extorted money from them with death threats. The couple complained to the Cinnamon Gardens police, but they did not see an inquiry for more than five months and no statement was taken from Amaratunga. When the media questioned the police they claimed to be "unaware" of the incident. John Amaratunga accepted that the accused was a friend but denied the allegations that he abused his powers to stop

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