Paki Impy,
Did you go & Protest ?
The multi-million-rupee Sakvithi finance company scandal has started causing ripple effects countrywide with panic-stricken depositors demanding the return of their monies from questionable finance companies, reports from the provinces said.
Depositors of six more companies, which were declared illegal by the Central Bank on Friday, rushed to the offices of these companies, demanding their deposits back. Some went to local police stations to lodge complaints.
An estimated 2,000 depositors and their family members yesterday demonstrated outside the Sakvithi office demanding the arrest of the police officer, the main suspect and other directors of the company.
After a one-hour noisy protest, the placard carrying protestors marched to an office of a Nugegoda lawyer who they claimed was the lawyer of the company. They protested outside the lawyer s office also. Some employees of the lawyer were reportedly assaulted after heated arguments. So far six suspects, including a retired Army Major, have been arrested.
It was just three days after the Central Bank raided six unregistered finance companies and warned the owners on Friday, September 19 that Sakvithi Ranasinghe, the English teacher-cum unregistered finance company owner, decamped with millions of rupees of hard-earned depositors money
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