Perera had allegedly lured Amtrad Holdings into obtaining the money as a loan from PABC.

Amtrad Holdings had then given the money to Perera.

Since Amtrad Holdings’ income is only around Rs. 30 million, it had to place a bond to obtain a loan of Rs. 158.5 million.

The bond came from Ishara Nanayakkara’s Lanka Orix Leasing Company (LOLC).

The LOLC too, has obtained a bond from Singapore’s BPL in order to give the bond requested by Amtrad Holdings.

For around four months after the money was given Perera, the instalements were not paid, and the PABC was told to obtain the bond money placed by LOLC, which it had done.

However, after the present government took office on 08 January 2015, the FCID found the LOLC bond document from among documents of ex-MP Sajin Vaas Gunawardena.

As investigations progressed, a sum of Rs. 158.5 million was found from an account belonging to Amtrad Holdings.

When inquired, the company said the money did not belong to it.

The FCID believes Perera had deposited the money.

Accordingly, money had been received twice to pay the loan obtained from PABC, once through the bond given by LOLC and again through the money in the account of Amtrad Holdings, to which no one makes a claim.

Perera is in Australia

When contacted over the phone, Perera said he was presently in Australia.

He said he would reveal information regarding the matter once he returned home.

Yoshitha, Namal had nothing to do with the money

Meanwhile, the FCID has not obtained statements from ex-president Mahinda Rajapaksa’s sons Namal and Yoshitha regarding this matter.

When contacted, Yoshitha told Sri Lanka Mirror that the allegations leveled were completely false, and that his lawyers were looking into filing court against the media institutions that have published such fallacies.

Our attempts to reach Namal for a comment failed as he was at a parliamentary debate at the time.