Welivita rejects Rs. 157 m confiscated belonged to CSN

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Carlton Sports Network (CSN) Director and Spokesman for former President Mahinda Rajapaksa Rohan Welivita yesterday rejected reports of CSN funds being confiscated by the Government.

“Last week, it was widely reported in the media that a sum of Rs. 157.5 million belonging to the CSN Channel had been confiscated by the Government. However the money said to have been confiscated does not belong to CSN, nor does that money belong to any Directors or shareholders of CSN from its inception to the present,” he said in a statement.

Welivita also alleged the money could belong to another private company but stopped short of explaining how the cash was attributed to CSN.

“I was made to understand by officers of the FCID that this money belongs to a company by the name of Amtrad Holdings Ltd.”

He also rejected media reports suggesting he was a Director of the company and insisted that it was detrimental to his public image.

“Some media reports had mistakenly reported that one of the directors of Amtrad Holdings by the name of ‘Rohan’ was myself. This confusion has damaged the reputation that I built up over four decades as a media person and an artiste.”