The Colombo Magistrate Court today ordered to release on bail, the domestic aide of former Minister Keheliya Rambukwella, who was arrested by the Bribery Commission recently.
The woman was arrested last week in connection with investigations into allegations that Rambukwella had appointed 15 individuals to his personal staff nominally and had received over Rs. 8 million in salaries and allowances.
When the case was taken up for hearing today, the Bribery Commission had informed that it was conducting further investigations into a bank account used by the woman, a resident of Embilipitiya.
Bribery Commission officials informed the court that although the suspect said that the bank account was opened for a sand mining business, an examination of the money transferred has revealed that no such business had been conducted. As such, they said further investigations are being conducted in this regard.
The lawyer representing the suspect informed the court that the suspect had used money from the bank account of the third suspect, Nishantha Basnayake, and that the money was not government money.
Taking into consideration the facts, the magistrate ordered the woman to be released on two sureties of Rs. one million each.
The court, which banned her from travelling overseas, also issued an order requiring her to surrender her passport to the court.
The magistrate then ordered the case to be called again on 10 October 2025.
Meanwhile, a family member of the woman implicated in the case told Newswire that the Bribery Commission has wrongfully identified the woman as a domestic aide of Keheliya Rambukwella.
The family member said that the woman in question was a graduate of the University of Colombo and is a software engineer.
He further revealed that the woman had worked as an intern at the Health Ministry during the tenure of Keheliya Rambukwella. (Newswire)