Finance and Mass Media Minister Mangala Samaraweera’s Public Coordinating Secretary Sameera Manahara is not implicated in the drug bust that occurred on Saturday (5) evening, Minister’s Media Secretary Asitha Rajapaksa said.

Issuing a statement last evening (7), the Finance and Mass Media Minister’s Media Secretary pointed out that although Sameera Manahara had been arrested together with three others, he had later been released on bail.

On Saturday night Sameera Manahara and three of his friends were arrested by Police after quantities of cocaine, methamphetamine pills and hashish were found in the luxury jeep they were travelling in.

One of the occupants of the jeep had confessed to the drugs belonging to him and upon being produced before the Mount Lavinia Magistrate he was remanded further while Sameera Manahara and two others were released on bail.