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Controversy over container release: CID to question Wimal
The Island
|July 09, 2025
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has summoned National Freedom Front (NFF) leader Wimal Weerawansa to its Headquarters today (09) to record a statement on the ongoing investigations into the release of over 300 containers from the Colombo port last January without Customs inspection.
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A spokesman for the NFF said that the CID had informed Weerawansa that it needed to record a statement from him regarding views expressed by him on the release of containers.
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