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by S. Selvakuamar

CID officials investigating an allegedly bogus conspiracy to assassinate President Chandrika Kumaratunge, which was reported in a Sinhala weekly, questioned the publisher of the weekly for four hours yesterday. According to CID sources, the publisher had been taken in for questioning at 10.00 in the morning and had not been released until 2.00 in the afternoon.

The sources said that the editor of the newspaper and the reporter will also be taken in for questioning on a later date.

Meanwhile, Interior Minister John Amaratunga, who had earlier ordered the CID to carry out a thorough investigation to ascertain how the story came to be published in the weekly said that appropriate action will be meted out to those involved in the conspiracy, once the CID investigations are completed. The weekly, said to be financed by a former PA Minister from the South, reported of a conspiracy by a section of PA politicians in collaboration with a section of UNF politicians to assassinate the President.

Opposition leader Mahinda Rajapakse informed the CID about the story, as did Interior Minister John Amaratunga, who asked the CID to carry out a thorough investigation.

CID sources were tight-lipped about the questioning and the progress of the investigation, but said that a report would be forwarded to the Interior Ministry after preliminary investigations are completed.

SLFP source accused former PA Minister and Attorney-at-Law of being the main culprits behind the non-existent plot to assassinate the President.

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