Bribery charges:

Chandima de Silva cleared

Sandasen Marasinghe

COLOMBO: Colombo High Court Judge Thilak Thabrew yesterday released Chairman of the Director Board of Jayawardanapura Hospital, Gunamuni Chandima Sudam de Silva from bribery charges.

The Court released him from the charges when the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption submitted that the Bribery Commission would not continue the case.

The Bribery Commission indicted de Silva for allegedly accepting an incentive of Rs 82,000 from Deputy Manager (Business Development) of Pramuka Bank Pinteru Ralalge Don Antony Joseph Riancy to deposit money belonging to the Jayawardanapura Hospital.

De Silva allegedly had accepted the incentive in 2000.

The Bribery Commission on an earlier date too informed the court that the commission found it difficult to prove the cases based on the evidence by the main witness since some other cases the High Court judges had observed that the court could not trust his evidence.

Attorney Krishantha Fernando appeared for the defence while Attorney Ruwani Wickramasinghe appeared for the Bribery Commission.