INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
At a recent meeting, the Committee on Public Accounts (COPA) has heard that a ship sailing from Seychelles to Thailand had unloaded 98
containers carrying a large cache of rotten fish in Sri Lanka, claiming that the consignment was intended for organic fertilizer
manufacturing.Additionally, the COPA has uncovered that the Sri Lankan agent of the said ship owns a fish cannery here and that 04 of the
containers, which were unloaded from the ship, have gone missing.It is also reported that the ship had been permitted to unload the
containers at the Colombo Port
waste.Meanwhile, the Chairman of the COPA, State Minister Lasantha Alagiyawanna assured that all government institutions related to the
matter would be summoned before the committee on March 05, in order to investigate the incident further.
