In a major development, Sri Lanka IGP has ordered CID to take over investigations into Sri Lanka Cricket Board (SLC) complaint over an attempted financial fraud of USD 5.5 Million dollars on television rights for England tour, Cricket Age reliably learns.
As Cricket Age exposed the 5.5 Million dollars attempted fraud at Sri Lanka Cricket Board (SLC) on yesterday, now new facts are coming out one by one. In the latest development, Cricket Age learns that the plan was to deposit that 5.5 million dollars into few accounts of the Hongkong.
On Monday, SLC CEO Ashley De Silva lodged a complaint to FCID to investigate the matter. However, after assessing the gravity of the attempted fraud, Now CID will investigate the matter after IGP instructions.
Cricket Age exposed earlier in the day that the employee of the SLC Finance division, who attempted to abduct this money by transferring it to offshore account, had written a fake resolution to SONY. In the letter, written on SLC letter head, he stated that SLC has done interim arrangements to operate few Hongkong accounts and thus he requested to deposit the money on those accounts for interim period.
And there is another twist in the story! Cricket Age learns that that SLC employee copied that mail to board CEO Ashley De Silva and Jerome Jayarathne as well.
However, SONY Sri Lanka’s representative Amali found the mail suspicious, thus raised the questions and that’s how the conspiracy got exposed!
