Pivithuru Hela Urumaya leader and former Member of Parliament Udaya Gammanpila reported to the Kuliyapitiya Police Station on Friday morning to give a statement in connection with the death of a Treasury official.
Mr. Gammanpila has publicly linked the Treasury official’s death to the broader Treasury cyber heist accountability thread, alleging during a press conference that the official’s apparent suicide warranted further scrutiny of the surrounding investigation.
Following those remarks, the Police Media Spokesperson said steps would be taken to record a statement from Mr. Gammanpila on the claims he had made. The former MP arrived at the station on the morning of May 9 to comply with the request.
The summons follows weeks of public commentary by Mr. Gammanpila that has shifted from questioning the original post-mortem at Kuliyapitiya Hospital, to a formal police summons over what officers described as “false claims”, to a rebuttal accompanied by official documents which he said supported the substance of his statements.
Treasury Information Technology officer Ranga Rajapaksha was found dead near his Kuliyapitiya home on April 30 in what authorities have officially classified as suicide. The case has continued to generate political contention because of its proximity to investigations into the alleged USD 2.5 million Treasury cyber theft, with several opposition voices — including Sarvajana Balaya leader Dilith Jayaweera — questioning the investigative framing.
Gammanpila has not publicly disclosed the substance of the statement he provided.
