The preliminary investigations are now complete and the legal measures will be taken as per the advice of the attorney general with regard to the abuse of state funds, say the sources.

V FM, Johan too, under probe

A special investigation is also underway into Fernando’s buying of V FM radio and a black money racket.

Colombo chief magistrate Gihan Pilapitiya yesterday ordered the financial crime investigation division to investigate Fernando and his son Johan over a fraud of obtaining goods from the CWE without making payments for their electioneering.