TRADE MINISTER FACES QUESTIONS OVER DECLARED ASSETS, WEALTH

Minister of Trade, Commerce, Food Security and Cooperative Development Wasantha Samarasinghe has come under fire in social media over his massive assets as said to have been declared in his declaration of assets and liabilities.

- AJITH SIRIWARDANA

Responding to social media posts of Samarasinghe possessing massive wealth of over Rs. 275 million worth commercial buildings, vehicles and gold, the Minister said in a television programme aired in a private television channel that he inherited some of his wealth from his family and that he had engaged in business activiti