Colombo (News1st) – Minister of Buddhasasana & Wayamba Development Gamini Jayawickrama Perera has notified that he would not be appearing before the Presidential Commission appointed to probe Fraud and Corruption of the State Institutions, today (August 13).

A spokesperson of the Commission stated that another date had been requested by the minister to appear before the commission.

Gamini Jayawickrama Perera was scheduled to appear before the commission to provide a statement regarding the allegations of irregularities claimed to have occurred at the Mahapola Trust Fund.

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