Arjun Aloysius, director of W.M. Mendis Distilleries, and two others who were serving a prison sentence for evading payment of Value Added Tax (VAT) of Rs. 3.5 billion, were released from remand yesterday. Prison spokesperson Gamini Dissanayake confirmed their release from Welikada Prison.
The three were sentenced to six months in prison by the Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court in October last year for VAT evasion.