Ratnapura District United National Party (UNP) Parliamentarian and actor Ranjan Ramanayake has been taken into custody a short while ago, according to sources close to him.
Mr. Ramanayake has been arrested in Colomboover an allegation of fraud amounting to some Rs 1,000,000 and is to be produced before the Kandymagistrate tomorrow, according to Central Province DIG Pujith Jayasundera.
A female teacher of a Kandy school had lodged a complaint with the Kandy Police regarding an alleged financial fraud by Ranjan Ramanayake. He filed for an Anticipatory Bail in courts, which was rejected.