Another fraud involving Golden Key

SANDASEN Marasinghe

Colombo High Court Judge W.A.T. Ratnayake yesterday fixed hearing of a case concerning the misappropriation of Rs. 92 million from the Golden Key Credit Card Company for June 12, 2009.

The Attorney General filed indictment against Kolambage Duminda de Silva Somanayake, the Chief Operations Officer of the Lanka Seacom Technologies Company for misusing Rs. 92 million from the Golden Key Credit Card Company which is an affiliated company of the Lanka Seacom Technologies Company.

According to the indictment Somanayake had made a forged document to say that he was allowed to increase his credit limit to Singapore Dollars 750,000 and forwarded it to N.A.D. Raj Edirimanasinghe, the General Manager of the Lanka Seacom Technologies Company.

He forwarded the document with the fake signature of the General Manager of the Golden Key Credit Card Company to Edirimanasinghe urging him to increase Somanayake's credit limit to 750,000 Singapore Dollars.

According to the third count of the indictment Somanayake misused Rs. 92 million of the Golden Key Credit Card Company.

The Court released Khavan Perera the Chief Executive Officer of the Golden Key Credit Card Company and the second witness in this case.