Gotabaya's Former Private Secretary Further Remanded Until November 18

COLOMBO (News1st): Sugeeshwara Bandara, private secretary to former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, has been further remanded until November 18 by order of Colombo Fort Acting Magistrate Kingsley Hettiarchchi. 

The Acting Magistrate also directed that his bail application be taken up for consideration on that date.

The suspect remains in remand custody after being produced in court by the Central Crime Investigation Bureau over allegations of simultaneously drawing salaries for two positions under the Presidential Expenditure Head.