Bandula Gunawardena questions source of terrorism funds

COLOMBO (News 1st): Speaking at a media briefing held in Colombo today (May 12) MP Bandula Gunawardena said that no terrorist organization could grow or operate without funds. He continued to say that the Financial Intelligence Unit at the CBSL had conducted 1022 investigations on the suspicious flow of money in 2018 and had only reported 317 out of them to the authorities while 317 were handed over for further investigations. Gunawardena continued to say that during their period in power they had stopped money laundering and the illegal flow of money. He further added that taking all these facts into consideration that the CID should be able to track quite easily where the funds allocated for terrorism had gone and also suggested that an intelligence investigation be carried out on the matter.