The former Sri Lankan President Ranil Vikramasingheho arrested the police on Friday for alleged abuse of state finances. AFP informed the Source from the police environment, writes TASR.
- Police arrested former President Sri Lanka Ranil Vikramasingheho.
- Vikramasinghe faces allegations of state finance abuse.
- The suspicions concern his journey to the United Kingdom.
- She claims that her wife’s costs were paid by she herself.
- Vikramasinghe was elected President in July 2022.
Vikramasingheho took in custody after interrogation on the visit of the United Kingdom in September 2023 when as The head of state and his wife attended a ceremony at the British University in Wolverhampton. According to an anonymous AFP source, they shall bring a lawsuit for the abuse of state money for personal purposes.
In 2023, the former president stopped in Britain on his way back from Havana, Cuban, where he graduated from the G77 Summit. Vikramasinghe claims that his wife’s travel expenses were paid by she herself. However, investigators report that the ex -president used a private trip governmental money and his personal security was paid from state funds at that time.
Vikramasinghe became president in July 2022 for the rest of Gotabaja Rajapaks, who resigned after months of protests against alleged corruption. Vikramasinghem is credited Merit for the stabilization of the economy after the worst financial crisis in the country’s history in 2022. He did not succeed in the September elections.
