Colombo Additional Magistrate Tharanga Mahawatta has directed the Inland Revenue Department to submit a progress report on the tax investigation into model Piumi Hansamali and Aura Lanka Chairman Viranjith Thambugala to the court on July 31. Although Inland Revenue Department officers went to their homes to enforce the order, the two were not at home, the report states.
Attorney-at-law Dinesh Perera, who appeared for the Inland Revenue Department, had informed the court during the previous hearing.
The Inland Revenue Department had earlier requested the court to issue an order to investigate whether the two had committed offences under the Tax Act in accordance with Section 190 of the Inland Revenue Act.