Minister of Public Security Tiran Alles said Kanjipani Imran and Ganemulle Sanjeeva were helped by their lawyers to escape from the country.
Addressing a press conference in Colombo Minister Tiran Allas revealed the police have obtained statements from the accused counsels admitting that they did help the underworld figures to flee the country.
"They were taken from the courts and assisted in leaving the country. Now that we have arrested them they are revealing everything. They said they transported them halfway and handed them over to another group who put them on a boat" he said.
The Minister Allas said that there is a group of lawyers making their living through the country’s underworld.“Only a small group of lawyers are engaged in such acts,” he said.
The Minister also confirmed that the police have arrested all suspects, except for two in connection with the recent killing of Surendra Wasantha Perera.
