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Ramith Rambukwella, a former Sri-Lankan international cricket player, was arrested Wednesday by an anti-grafting commission as part of a corruption case linked to his politician father. The Commission to investigate the allegations of corruption or corruption (CIABOC) summoned Rambukwella to appear before him on Wednesday morning. He was arrested after registering a declaration to the corruption committee. He was then placed in pre -trial detention until June 3 by the tribunal of Magistrate in chief of Colombo. The chief magistrate of Colombo, Theuja Lakmali, on Tuesday granted permission to appoint Rambukwella as a suspect in the corruption case linked to his father Keheliya Rambukwella, former powerful minister of the Rajapaka administration.
Keheliya, previously arrested by the corruption committee, is also in pre -trial detention until June 3.
He faced a series of corruption charges and was arrested under his own government in 2024 for abusing the Indian credit line to buy lower quality medicines as Minister of Health.
Ramith played two T20 internationals in 2013 and 2018 against New Zealand and England after a successful career in school crickets.
In a separate case, the parliamentarian of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), Namal Rajapaksa, who is also the son of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa, was charged withs the alleged LKR pavilion error 70 million Krish hotels based in India for the development of the Rug of Sri Lanka.
He will face an audience in terms of forecast on June 27. Namal was a national rugby player.
A crowd of former parliamentarians spends time in pre -trial detention for various cases of corruption.
The current government of the power of the National People (NPP), as the general elections of last year approached, had committed to cleaning public life by holding responsible politicians.
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