What started as a simple question on Twitter has grown to a scandal of epic proportions, with India's WION news being the latest to pick-up on what is now being called '#Ishinigate' - the discovery that a popular social media influencer has allegedly siphoned as much as $82,000 from a Go-FundMe project to aid victims of the Sri Lanka Easter bombings.

Ishini Weerasinghe, the 21-year-old social media star had begun a Go-FundMe account in the aftermath of the Easter Sunday terror attack in Sri Lanka last year, through which she had raised over $82,000 for the victims.

However, requests for receipts for her purchases have not been met - over a year since first requested, and organisations she claimed to have disbursed the cash through have denied major involvement.

Donors charge that Weerasinghe who is also a famed instagram influencer has failed to provide any tangible proof on the dispersion of the amassed funds raised on behalf of Sri Lanka's Easter attack victims following the lapse of one and a half years.

The fundraiser on gofundme.com was created on 21 April 2019.

According to several updates on her fundraising campaign, Weerasinghe claims to have withdrawn the funds amounting to approximately 15 million Sri Lankan rupees in mid-June 2019.

She also claims that she faced several issues with regards to the disbursal of funds due to the church politics in Sri Lanka and various other obstacles.

Weerasinghe also claims that she has entrusted the collection of receipts to an individual, which according to her may serve as proof of the funds being genuinely distributed among Sri Lanka's Easter attack victims.

However, individual clarifications on fund disbursan, particularly in the Negombo parish, have turned up to the disappointment of many who supported Ishni Weerasinghe's initiative on gofundme.Com.

Ishni Weerasinghe has also been accused of misusing her fame in order to dupe and manipulate unsuspecting individuals.

Up against the overwhelming accusations against her, Ishni Weerasinghe has thus far not yet been able to provide any concrete proof regarding the disbursal of funds through her fundraising campaign for Sri Lanka's Easter attack victims and their families.

The Catholic church in Sri Lanka meanwhile has not issues a clarification or expressed its opinion in this regard.

The report from WION, below: