Though it had been reported recently that renowned cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan was to soon set up the first aluminium beverage can manufacturing plant in Sri Lanka with an investment of USD 63 million, a Sri Lanka Board of Investment (BOI) official who wished to remain anonymous told www.adaderanabiz.lk that this report needs to be corrected.

He said that this manufacturing plant had been set up sometime earlier and that Murali had recently come to the BOI office to clarify certain matters regarding it.

www.adaderanabiz.lk too carried this report quoting the relevant source.