MP Ali Sabri Raheem arrested
July 20, 2024 11:19 am
Puttalam District MP Ali Sabri Raheem has been arrested by Kalpitiya police a short while ago.
The parliamentarian, against whom a warrant had been issued recently, had appeared before the Kalpitiya Police this morning (20), after which he was arrested, police said.
Police said that he will be produced before the court today.
In March, the Puttalam District MP was suspended from Parliament for a period of one month, after a resolution proposing the suspension of Raheem from parliamentary proceedings was approved in the Parliament.
Raheem was embroiled in controversy last year after he was detained at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) in Colombo along with a stock of undeclared gold and mobile phones.
