Former Puttalam District MP Shantha Abeysekara and his child have actually been arrested by the Police Illegal Assets Investigations Division.The arrest was made when they arrived to give a declaration regarding an unlawfully assembled vehicle, Police said.The jailed suspects are anticipated to be produce before the Mahara Magistrates Court tomorrow (19 ).
On February 6, an illegally assembled luxury car which was allegedly utilized by previous MP and SJB member Abeysekara, was discovered taken apart and concealed by officers of the Illegal Assets Investigations Division.
A division of the IAD had supposedly gotten details that former MP Shantha Abeysekara was utilizing an illegally assembled luxury vehicle.Accordingly, after investigating the relevant details for several days, a team of officers were dispatched to Puttalam to seize the vehicle.However, the automobile could not lie, and further investigation have actually exposed that it had been disassembled and concealed in 2 separate locations.Parts of the vehicle were concealed in a coconut plantation land in Puttalam owned by the former MP and in another home near his residence.
The chassis and body parts of the car were found hidden in the close-by house, while several more vehicle parts, consisting of the engine, were discovered in the aforementioned property.Further examinations revealed that the vehicle had been signed up using the engine and chassis numbers of a vehicle already presently utilized by the Department of Agriculture.It was also revealed that the vehicle utilized by the former MP had these numbers etched on it.Furthermore, it was revealed that the former MP Shantha Abeysekara and his son had presumably dismantled and concealed the car after cops just recently seized a number of illegally assembled vehicles.Police mentioned that although they tried to tape a declaration from the former MP on February 5 regarding this matter, he might not be reached.