The charge concerned operating a floating armoury onboard the MV Avant Garde in the seas off Galle harbour. A former defence secretary testified that Avant Garde Maritime Services and Rakna Lanka, which was under the Defence Ministry, had been given permission to operate one in the Red Sea.21 May 2021 · Ada Derana · Nissanka Senadhipathi and others acquitted from Avant-Garde floating armoury case