The Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption has filed a case under High Court Case No.01/04/2019 on 20.06.2019 in the Permanent Trial-at-Bar against the President’s Chief of Staff, Indiketiya Hewage Kusumdasa Mahanama and the Chairman of State Timber Corporation, Piyadasa Dissanayaka on the charge of soliciting and accepting of Rs.20 million gratification from an Indian National namely Kotagarlahalli Pedappiya Nagaraja to make arrangements of handing over the land and equipment of Kantale Sugar Factory in order to initiate its operations.