Millions Found Inside Former Lanka President's House Produced In Court: Report

Saturday, 30 July 2022newsdesk

Sri Lankan police have produced before a court millions of rupees in cash found by anti-government protesters inside former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's official residence after he fled the mansion following the mass uprising against his government three weeks ago.

New Delhi, 30 July 2022

As per news report of NDTV, Hundreds of anti-government protesters on July 9 overran the then president Rajapaksa's residence in central Colombo's high-security Fort area after breaking the barricades, as they demanded his resignation over the island nation's worst economic crisis in recent memory. Amidst the unprecedented anti-government protests, Rajapaksa fled the country on July 13 to the Maldives and then to Singapore from where he emailed his resignation letter. The protesters recovered 17.85 million Sri Lankan Rupees inside his mansion which were later handed over to the police.

Source - NDTV