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On 23rd July, the Mayor of the Colombo Municipal Council Rosy Sennayake also lodged a complaint against the Youtuber Darshana Handugoda at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), over the video published in the SL Deshaya Youtube Channel. Handungoda published a video criticising the high cost of renovating the mayor’s official residence, and non-payment of utility bills of the residence. He also published a phone call recording in which the mayor acknowledges that the Chief of Presidential Staff and Senior Adviser on National Security to the President Sagala Ratnayake had contacted the Criminal Investigation Department, before encouraging her to make the complaint.