Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s Coordinating Secretary, Sanjaya Samarasinghe, is scheduled to be produced before the Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court today.
Samarasinghe was arrested by the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) last night.
According to the Bribery Commission, Rs. 1.8 million was discovered inside a safe at Samarasinghe’s residence.
The Commission said he was taken into custody over allegations that he had failed to disclose how the funds were acquired.
