A businessman who pleaded guilty to printing counterfeit currency notes and giving them to Dulanjali Jayakody, the daughter of late President R. Premadasa, was yesterday sentenced to two-year-rigorous imprisonment suspended for five years by Colombo High Court.
High Court Judge Gihan Kulatunga ordered the accused, Krishantha Rolith Perera of Maharagama to pay a fine of Rs. 500,000. The accused was also ordered to pay a fine of Rs. 2 million to Dulanjali Jayakody, an aggrieved party of the case.
The Attorney General had filed indictments against the accused for printing 503 of counterfeit currency notes of Rs. 5,000 and possessing equipment used for the printing of the notes on or around March 25, 2014 at Park Road in Colombo 5.