The United National Party s (UNP) media unit has released a copy of the officially invitation letter sent by the University of Wolverhampton to former President Ranil Wickremesinghe and his wife, Professor Maithree Wickremesinghe.
He and his wife, Maithree, attended a University of Wolverhampton ceremony. Wickremesinghe has maintained that his wife met her own travel expenses and that no state funds were used. However, the Criminal Investigation Department of the police alleged that Wickremesinghe used government money for his travel on a private visit and that the state also paid his bodyguards.
Summarised from Ada Derana
People- Ranil Wickremesinghe2
- Maithree Wickremesinghe.In
- Maithree Wickramasinghe
- Maithree Wickremesinghe
- John Raftery
Organisations- University of Wolverhampton2
- United National Party2
- United Nations2
- Criminal Investigation Department of
- Criminal Investigation Department
- United National Party (UNP
- Wolverhampton University
Places- London2
- United Kingdom.Former
- Wolverhampton.The
- United Kingdom
- Havana
Keywords- allegations2
- invitation2
- releases2
- response
- counter
- arrest
- letter
- copy
- trip
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