$717,600 legal fees paid on behalf of whom?

It is revealed that Mahinda Rajapaksa paid at least $717,586 as foreign court fees during his presidency.
This information is revealed in the Hansard report on March 4, 2015, and in the reply given by the Minister of State for Finance to a question raised by Member of Parliament Anura Dissanayake.
It is declared that 20,000 dollars, 250,000 dollars, 87,000 dollars, 90,586 dollars, 120,000 dollars, 150,000 dollars, etc., were paid as court fees in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014. The Hansard report does not detail how and to whom these court fees were paid.