Woman granted bail in Rs.60 m breach of trust case
 

by Sarath Malalasekera

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) yesterday produced Sabrina Fahim of Alwis Place Colombo 3 before the Colombo Fort Magistrate and Additional District Judge Sarath C. Karunaratne in connection with alleged criminal breach of trust of Rs 60 million, which belonged to Sri Lankan business tycoon Sabir Hussein.

On an application by Hemantha Warnakulasuriya, the Judge granted cash bail for suspect Sabrina in a sum of Rs. 25,000 and directed her to appear in court on November 2.

The CID producing the suspect Sabrina in court said that businessman Sabir Hussein had complained to the CID that he had been deceived by his own relatives for over Rs.62 million.

According to the complaint the tycoon's relatives are alleged to have purchased business premises at Duplication road from the money that he sent from abroad in order to build houses in Negombo and in Colombo for the use of the complainant.

The two relatives of Sri Lankan tycoon are alleged to have altered all the receipts and other documents relating to the two houses and are alleged to have cheated him for millions of rupees.

The two relatives of Sabir had altered and prepared several forged documents stating that they had spend several lakhs of rupees in purchasing sand, bricks, timber and other items used to build the two houses, the complainant had told the CID. A dossier of all alleged forged documents and receipts also had been forwarded to the CID for investigations.

Hemantha Warnakulasuriya with Jayantha Dias Nanayakkara, Vijitha Wickremasuriya, Dushit Johnthason, Prasanna Weerasekera and Ramani Abeygunawardena appeared for the suspect Sabrina.