Event
Meetotamulla extortion case
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Details
- Court
- Colombo High Court
- Status
- Conviction and suspended sentence stand; appeal withdrawn 11 September 2025
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- Prasanna Ranatunga / Convicted in / Meetotamulla extortion case
- The Colombo High Court convicted him on one of fifteen counts, for threatening a businessman by phone in 2015 and demanding Rs. 64 million to obtain five promissory notes. He was given two years of rigorous imprisonment suspended for five years and fined Rs. 25 million. On 11 September 2025 he withdrew his appeal, leaving the sentence and fine in effect.11 Sep 2025 · Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka) · Suspended sentence, Rs.25 Mn fine to stand as Prasanna Ranatunga drops Appeal