Former Sri Lankan president admitted to hospital after arrest | Sri Lanka
The former president of Sri Lanka was hospitalized on Saturday a day after being accused of using public funds to finance private international trips to finance private international travels, as he concentrated the pressure of the government corruption.
76 -year -old Ranil Wickremetinghe was detained on Friday after being accused of using the money of taxpayers for a two -day visit to the United Kingdom to attend a ceremony to give an honorable professor at the University of Wolverhampton at the University of Wolverhampton in September 2023.
WickREMEINGHE refused to abuse the state money and said that his wife paid his own travel expenses. The visit took place on Wickremesinghe’s return from the G77 Summit in Havana and the UN General Assembly in New York.
Crimes shall be sentenced to a maximum of 20 years of imprisonment and an estimated 16.6 million rupees (£ 41,000).
Sri Lanka’s last presidential elections in September, Wickremetinghe leftist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake was brought to Colombo National Hospital after being brought to the National Hospital. Rukshan Bellana, the vice president of the hospital, said that Agency-Presse news agency should be treated for acute dehydration. Bellana was a severe diabetic with high blood pressure when it was brought, ”Bellana said.
WickREMEMGHE became the president in July 2022 after months of protests led by the worst economic decline of Gotabaya Rajapaksa since independence. Before assumed the presidency, Wickremetinghe, who was not popular with protesters because he was seen as an ally of the Rajapaksa clan, had been a prime minister six times since he entered politics in 1977, but he had not completed a period.
With an important political change for the country last September, Dissanayake was replaced by the leftist Janatha Vimukthi Perramuna (JVP) party. The JVP endured some of the worst violence in the history of the country, and Dissanayake tried to soften some of the harder positions of his party as he pulled voters with the words of corruption and power abuse.
