Sri Lanka, May 5 -- Former Additional Secretary of the State Ministry of Agriculture Mahesh Gammampila was granted bail by the Colombo Chief Magistrate's Court.

Gammampila was taken into custody by the Bribery Commission over allegations of ordering the reopening of suspended letters of credit to import a consignment of substandard organic fertiliser from a Chinese company in 2021.

The transaction allegedly caused a financial loss of US$ 6.9 million to the government.

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