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Tissa Attanayake Arrested-Video

Previous United National Party (UNP) General Secretary Tissa Attanayake has been captured by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), this evening, Police Spokesperson SSP Ajith Rohana said.

A request had been propelled by the CID focused around reports that Attanayake showed a charged mystery assention letter said to have marked between President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe.

Attanayake who was at the time Health Minister of previous President Mahinda Rajapaksa's administration, shown the assention letter and charged President Sirisena and the Prime Minister of consenting to the mystery arrangement, notwithstanding the Memorandum of Understanding (Mou) marked in general society. The Parliamentarian additionally affirmed the mystery assention of containing a few terms that could be unsafe to the nation.

On 25 December, President Sirisena additionally sent a letter of interest to Attanayake, on this respect, and requested 2,500 million rupees as remuneration.

The letter of interest said "I am told that my customer (Maithripala Sirisena) and Hon. Ranil Wickramasinghe did not consent to any Arrangement on 1 November, 2014, or on some other day as claimed by you containing any of the conditions which you affirmed contains,"

Wickramasinghe, in a letter sent to the IGP, additionally communicated concerns and expressed that he had never consented to such arrangement with President Sirisena. The Prime Minister likewise charged Minister Attanayake of producing his signature and dispersing the archive at the public interview.

Redesign: Former United National Party (UNP) General Secretary Tissa Attanayake was remanded by the Fort Magistrate's Court until 11 February, a short while prior.