Sri Lanka, July 8 -- Colombo Fort Magistrate Pasan Amarasena today ordered former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's former Private Secretary, Sugeeshwara Lenin Bandara, to be further remanded till July 22 over allegations of criminal misappropriation of funds allocated under the Presidential Expenditure Head.

The case was taken up before the Colombo Fort Magistrate's Court, where the Magistrate rejected the suspect's bail application and ordered that he be further remanded.

According to investigators, Bandara is alleged to have misused public funds by drawing salaries and allowances from the Presidential Expenditure Head while simultaneously serving as former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's Private Secretary and as Director of Special Proj...