Drug lord Wele Suda’s trial postponed for February 7

The trial of the money laundering case filed against two accused including drug kingpin Gampola Vidanage Samantha Kumara alias

‘Wele Suda’ who is currently serving a death sentence, was postponed for February 7 by the Colombo High Court.

When the case was yesterday taken up before Colombo High Court Judge Navarathne Marasinghe, the Court was informed by the Prison Authorities that the accused ‘Wele Suda’ is ill and unable to be produced in Court.

The case was postponed for February 7 by the Colombo High Court.

The Attorney General had filed indictment under two counts in the Colombo High Court against Dissanayake Mudiyanselage Sameera Udara and Gampola Vidanage Samantha Kumara alias ‘Wele Suda’ for allegedly maintaining two bank accounts which contained Rs.31,918,790 and Rs.29,632,840 (around Rs.60 million) separately which was suspected to be money obtained from heroin trafficking within a period of one year.

The case was filed against the accused under the Money Laundering Act No.05 of 2006 as amended by Act No.40 of 2011 read with the section 32 of Penal Code.

The Attorney General had listed four productions as case productions while named 16 prosecution witnesses.

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