RADA chief remanded

by Dhaneshi Yatawara

The Chief Operating Officer of the Reconstruction and Development Agency (RADA), Saliya Wickramasuriya was remanded yesterday until May 12 by the Fort Magistrate for alleged financial fraud, Police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekara said.

He was taken in yesterday morning by the Police Special Investigation Unit, he said. Wickramasuriya who was arrested at his residence in Charles Place, Kollupitiya, was the chief suspect of a Rs.169 million financial fraud of a tsunami housing project in the North and the East Provinces.

RADA was a state run reconstruction agency which was operating under the now defunct Ministry of Nation Building and Estate Infrastructure.