Controversial land sale in Colombo

The Joint Opposition has exposed details of questionable sale of land in the city of Colombo. UPFA Parliamentarian, Bandula Gunewardena: A gazette notification contains the sale of a massively populated plot land in Slave Island, Colombo 2, which is around eight acres, for a sum of 130 million US Dollars under the Strategic Development Bill and this has been issued by Minister Malik Samarawickrama after consulting the Finance Minister. According to parliamentarian Gunawardena the investor for this is a private company called One-Colombo Project Private Limited, and this project is to be handed over to them in 2017 and is scheduled to be completed in another eight years.