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Sri Lanka's Ex-President Rajapaksa Quizzed Over Millions of Rupees Seized at Home

© AP Photo / Eranga JayawardenaThen-Sri Lankan presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa waves to media as he leaves the election commission after filing his nomination in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, Oct. 7, 2019. Former Sri Lanka President Rajapaksa, who fled his country last month during anti-government unrest and then resigned his position, is expected to visit Thailand, a Thai official said Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022.
Then-Sri Lankan presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa waves to media as he leaves the election commission after filing his nomination in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, Oct. 7, 2019. Former Sri Lanka President Rajapaksa, who fled his country last month during anti-government unrest and then resigned his position, is expected to visit Thailand, a Thai official said Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022.  - Sputnik India, 1920, 08.02.2023
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Last year, Gotabaya Rajapaksa hastily fled his official residence after anti-government protestors stormed the premises.
Sri Lankan Police questioned the country's former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa for hours at his private residence regarding the 17.85Mln Sri Lankan rupees ($48,938) seized at his official residence after he fled the country in July last year, according to media reports.

Police investigators on Monday "recorded a three-hour long statement from the former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa about the cash found in the president's house," police spokesman Nihal Thalduwa told foreign media.

The huge sum of money was found by the protestors who handed it over to the Colombo Fort police.
Later, the court ordered a statement to be recorded from the 73-year-old former president.
Rajapaksa fled Sri Lanka on 13 July 2022 and went to the Maldives, Singapore, and Thailand. But he returned to his homeland in September.
Rajapaksa and his family had enjoyed political dominance for the past two decades and were accused of financial wrongdoing between 2015 and 2019.
Since he became president in 2019 and enjoyed the immunity of office, no cases were filed against him.
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