The name of Piyal Nandana, the main accused of Sri Lanka Cricket Board (SLC) much talked about 11.1 million dollars attempted fraud case, has been emerged in the board latest vehicle controversy.
A luxury vehicle has mysteriously reappeared at the car park of the Sinhalese Sports Club, eight months after it was purchased by the board. Cricket Age reliably learns that the vehicle was bought for Piyal Nandana, as he was the head of finance at SLC at that time.
However, when he was accused in 11.1 million dollars attempted fraud case, SLC had sent him on compulsory leave. Later, CID also arrested him as part of their investigation of the attempted fraud.
According to sources, after the arrest of Piyal by CID, the said vehicle was parked at Carmart all these time and SLC brought it back just now, one week prior to election.
More surprisingly, the said vehicle is of higher grade. This, Sports Ministry must inquire that who ordered for a higher grade vehicle for Piyal, when other Head Of Departments as SLC received rather lower grade vehicles. It’s noteworthy that Aruna De Silva, who is a close associate of Sumathipala, has also got higher grade vehicle with leather seats!
While approval had been granted for the procurement of these eight luxury vehicles during the Thilanga Sumathipala administration, Cricket Age learns that the vehicle, which was spotted at SSC on February 13, was one which had not been seen before.
On Wednesday, the said vehicle was parked at the SSC close to the rear entrance of Sri Lanka Cricket.
It is noteworthy that Carmart owner’s wife is relative of Sumathipala.In addition, he is also a former employee of Sumathipala’s family.
On february 12, Cricket Age had published that Piyal has not only been released from the jail, but has even started working somewhere else.
In october last year, CID had arrested Piyal in the ongoing investigation of the attempted fraud. At that time, CID had found that Piyal was using 7 different mobile phones while working at SLC. More surprisingly, CID had found Piyal’s 18 different bank accounts along with his wife back then.
At that time, the investigative CID officials were confident that these findings would help them to find real culprit behind the attempted fraud.
Cricket Age had exposed at that time that the document was sent by SLC Finance division to SONY, and that three employees were involved in the attempted fraud. The resolution had been prepared, checked and approved by three different employees of the SLC!
In the resolution, it had been stated that the total amount is USD 11,128,809 and it should have deposited in Hongkong account, as SLC has having some internal issues.
