INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The Attorney General today served indictments before the Colombo High Court Special Trial-at-Bar on previous Minister Keheliya Rambukwella
and 11 others over the alleged import of subpar Human Immunoglobulin vials.The indictment includes an overall of 13 charges.In 2022, in the
middle of the nations economic crisis, a variety of high-ranking health authorities were supposedly involved in the purchase of medicine
stocks by changing existing procurement treatments and producing a false shortage of drugs in the country.In such a context, three clients
in Kandy, Matale, and Colombo who had utilized human immunoglobulin vaccines, among the types of medications purchased from the above
pointed out medicine stocks, had actually established issues, raising issues about the quality of the medicine.Accordingly, the Criminal
Investigation Department (CID) released an examination based upon two complaints received regarding this matter.Subsequently, a case was
submitted before the Maligakanda Magistrate Court, calling 12 individuals as suspects.These consist of the owner of the business that
provided the low quality drugs, Sudath Janaka Fernando, former Health Minister Keheliya Rambukwella, previous Secretary to the Ministry of
Health Janaka Chandragupta, and a group of other high-ranking officials in the health sector.Although 10 suspects in the event were
apprehended and produced before the court, they were remanded and later on launched on bail.However, the very first suspect, the provider of
the substandard human immunoglobulin vaccines, is still in remand custody.In this context, on June 19, Deputy Solicitor General Lakmini
Girihagama, who last reported the progress of the investigations to the court, stated that the Criminal Investigation Departments probe into
the low quality Human Immunoglobulin vials case, which lasted one year, 8 months, and six days, has actually now been concluded.Accordingly,
the Attorney General served indictments today before the Colombo High Court Special Trial-at-Bar on former Minister Keheliya Rambukwella and
11 others implicated in the case.The indictment was served before a three-judge bench of the Colombo High Court making up Justices Mahen
Weeraman, Amali Ranaweera, and Pradeep Abeyratne.
