He was responding to a question by a journalist after assuming duties as the 40th auditor general yesterday (28).

The Auditor General’s Department officer who uncovered the Rs. 169 million fraud at RADA, H.M.K. Herath, recently appeared before the CID.

Prior to that, he has told the media that he would be giving a statement with regard to the files connected to the fraud that have gone missing.

The special investigating unit at the police headquarters is already investigating the financial fraud at RADA, set up in 2006 to construct houses for the tsunami-displaced in the north and the east.

Its chief operations officer Saliya Wickramasuriya was arrested on May 12, remanded and later released on bail.

Investigations are taking place with regard to claims that RADA money had been given to a former LTTE intelligence leader Emil Kanthan.

Meanwhile, finance minister Ravi Karunanayake has asked prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to investigate a claim that the LTTE had been given money during the 2005 presidential election.

Karunanayake has told Hiru FM that the LTTE had been bribed in order to change the result of the election, adding that the remarks by the late minister Sripathi Sooriyarachchi could be taken as evidence in this regard.

The PM has promised to look into the matter.