A person who was alleged to have defrauded two million rupees, pledged before the Moratuwa District Judge that he would repay same.

The respondent Neville Kroon was sued by Asha Phillips to recover the sum that she had sent to the respondent from abroad.

The plaintiff Asha Phillips and the respondent had been friends for a long time, and she had been working in Italy when the respondent asked for two million rupees to construct a house.

Asha Phillips has sent the money in two installments to the respondent. When she returned to Sri Lanka, she has asked for the return of the money she had sent, but the respondent Kroon had refused to repay her, denying that he received money from her.

When the case was taken up before the District Judge of Moratuwa B. A. R. Somasinghe, the respondent admitted the fact that he has taken the said amount, and pleaded that he would be able to pay only 1.25 million rupees. The plaintiff Asha Phillips agreed to accept the amount from Kroon giving the him one and half years time to re-pay the balance.