There will be no visitors for them today (31), as per prison regulations, which prohibit visits on Sundays.

They were taken there from Kaduwela magistrate’s court by six specially trained prison officers in a prison bus under tight police escort around 8.00 pm yesterday.

According to prison sources, Yoshitha had remained awake for most part of the night.

He and CSN channel’s ex-chief Rohan Weliwita, who is also Mahinda Rajapaksa’s spokesman, CEO Nishantha Ranatunga and directors Kavishan Dissanayake and Rabinath Fernando were arrested by the FCID yesterday afternoon.

They have been taken in following an investigation carried out under the money laundering act over the abuse of state property, for activities of CSN.