Former director of the Terrorist Investigations Division DIG Nalaka de Silva has been summoned to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) today obtain a statement regarding an alleged plot to assassinate President Maithripala Sirisena and former Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa, CID sources said.
He has been informed to appear before CID Homicide Investigation Unit OIC Chief Inspector Ranjith Munasinghe at 9.00 am today. According to the CID sources statements are to be obtained on the voice recording given by Namal Kumara about the alleged assassination plot and taking two L.M.G. type guns, which were given to the Terrorist Investigations Division by the Police Central Weapon Storeroom, out of the TID on two occasions.
It has been reported that the CID has recorded statements from Anti-Corruption Force Operations Director Namal Kumara on six occasions.
Anti-Corruption Force Operations Director Namal Kumara at a media briefing recently revealed that the DIG Nalaka de Silva discussed with him an alleged plot to kill President Maithripala Sirisena and former Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa.
