Sri Lanka Cricket lodges complaint against former sports miner Roshan Ranasinghe over ‘misuse of Funds’ | Cricket News

Sri Lanka Cricket on Monday filed a complaint with the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption against the country’s former sports miner Roshan Ranasinghe over the alleged misuse of funds released the SLC to develop other disciplines.
The move came ahead of Tuesday’s scheduled hearing a court of appeal of the case filed SLC on Ranasinghe’s decision to sack the governing body and appoint an interim committee headed World Cup-winning former captain Arjuna Ranatunga.
“The decision to file this complaint stems from the concern that Mr. Roshan Ranasinghe MP has not appropriately disclosed the utilization of funds allocated SLC for the intended purposes,” quoted the press release SLC.

Sri Lanka Cricket wishes to inform that it has formally lodged a complaint with the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption in Sri Lanka against Mr. Roshan Ranasinghe MP over the alleged misuse of funds provided SLC to the National Sports Fund for the…
— Sri Lanka Cricket 🇱🇰 (@OfficialSLC) December 4, 2023
“This move comes in the wake of a discernible disparity between the information disclosed to the media Mr. Ranasinghe MP and the response received SLC under a Right to Information (RTI) application, outlining the specifics of the expenditures made,” the press release added.
Since the World Cup began there has been no short of off-field drama in Sri Lankan cricket. Their campaign in the tournament was hit-and-miss as they navigated patchy form and a slew of injuries. The board had filed a complaint Ranasinghe over the alleged misuse of funds provided SLC to the National Sports Fund.
Then the International Cricket Council had suspended SLC on 10 November with immediate effect. The ICC board determined that “Sri Lanka Cricket is in serious breach of its obligations as a Member, in particular, the requirement to manage its affairs autonomously and ensure that there is no government interference in the governance, regulation and/or adminration of cricket in Sri Lanka.”
The suspension meant that the ICC Under-19 World Cup, which was scheduled to be held in Sri Lanka in January, was moved to South Africa.
The court is expected to hear the view of Harin Fernando, Ranasinghe’s successor in the sports minry, on the gazette issued his predecessor sacking the SLC management under Shammi Silva. Ranasinghe’s move to fire the Silva adminration came after months of stand-off between them. Ranasinghe based his call on a government audit report that had accused Silva’s SLC management as corrupt.
(With PTI inputs)