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Deepthi Perera, Director of the financial establishment known as CIFL had been hiding after fleeing to another

Deepthi Perera who played the role of a Director of CIFL Company which appeared as a registered institution of the Central Bank committed this financial fraud and fled from the country in the year 2013, thus leaving a large number of people who deposited their monies in this Company helpless and they then engaged in protests claiming the money. By now the number of cases filed by the depositors total over 150. This person known as Deepthi Perera who is a resident of Akuressa has also appeared by the name of Chulaka Goonawardena.

After he was accosted the police conducted investigations and it was reported that he had given the impression to the world that he had been carrying on a financial institution with various special Degree qualifications to his name while in reality he was someone who had acquired only an ordinary education. He had served in the capacity of an ordinary soldier in the army for approximately 3 years after which he had deserted the services, it was confirmed. He had worked as an ordinary soldier in the month of December, 1990 attached to the Medical Corps of the army and it was revealed in courts that he had abandoned his services without prior notification, in 1993. He had then used the name of Chulaka Goonawardena under the number 85206. This fraudster who appeared under the name Chulaka in the early stages subsequently transformed his identity to Deepthi in the year 2005. He had even acquired a marriage certificate by forwarding false information to a marriage registrar in Sri Jayawardenepura, Kotte in the year 2005 and in the very same year had even obtained a fresh national identity card from the Department of Registration of Persons under the name Mallawaarachchige Deepthi Perera. It was after that, that he had begun to comport himself as a Director of an office situated in Colombo 7.

The audit firm K.P.N.G. who carried out an evaluation on this financial fraud informed courts yesterday that they need to extract further information from him and after being produced in courts Deepthi Perera alias Chulaka Goonawardena has been imprisoned without bail while the said audit firm was granted special permission by courts to recover further information. Further inquiries in this connection underway.