Massive corruption and fraud at SriLankan Airlines under the administrations of Mahinda Rajapaksa and Ranil Wickremesinghe are not limited to the Rs 362mn (USD2mn) accepted by former CEO of SriLankan Airlines, Kapila Chandrasena and his wife, now arrested on orders of the Attorney General following exposure in a court case in the United Kingdom.
Kapila Chandrasena
Though former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe argued in Parliament this week that his Government had not got the needed documentation to enable steps to be taken in law to arrest the fraudsters responsible, Colombo Telegraph finds that this is not correct as much of the needed information had been made available through the Commission of Inquiry appointed by President Maithripala Sirisena to look into the maladministration of SriLankan Airlines and also through extensive documentation released following an Order of the Right to Information Commission against Sri Lankan Airlines.
Representatives of the Pilots Guild, speaking to Colombo Telegraph, clarified that SriLankan Airlines had been ordered by the Right to Information Commission to release copies of the lease agreements, termination agreements with Airbus and minutes of Board Meetings relating to discussions of the Airbus deal. This was after the management of the airlines under former CEO Suren Ratwatte refused to give the details when the Airline Pilots Guild had filed an RTI application.
Even though the information was released as far back as June 2018, the Sri Lankan public is only now getting to know the specific details of the information releases following renewed interest after the arrests of Chandrasena and his wife. The minutes released disclosed the seeking of Cabinet approval for the Airbus deal at several meetings, including one held at former Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa’s residence with his son, Shameendra Rajapaksa also attending. Other members of the SriLankan Director Board who attended the meeting at the former Speaker’s residence was Mr Nihal Jayamanne, President’s Counsel, Nishantha Wickremesinghe, Chairman, Kapila Chandrasena, CEO and Ms Lakshmi Sangakkara.
Enormous losses were incurred by SriLankan Airlines in cancelling the lease agreement with Airbus in an ongoing series of several fraudulent transactions in which the Rajapaksa and Wickremsinghe regimes were equally responsible. The exact sum of money lost to the State is still not exactly calculated and its amount goes far beyond the USD2mn exposed as a result of aircraft manufacturer Airbus coming to 3.6 Billion Euro settlement with US, UK and French authorities following a 4 year investigation into allegations of bribery and corruption in which SriLankan Airlines featured prominently.
The question is if prosecutions will be proceeded with by the Attorney General in respect of all those fraudulent transactions without limiting himself to former CEO Chandrasena and his wife?
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Plato. / February 9, 2020
It is reported that Ranil Wicremesinghe is looking out for international postings; UNHCR and Commonwealth Secretariat. I wish he lands any one of the Jobs. Too long a stay as Leader of the UNP has dented his image to the point that he is also being accused of massive corruption,even though he may have not stood to benefit personally unlike his erstwhile pal MaRa!
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Don Stanley / February 9, 2020
During Bondscam Ranil’s time, with born-again Eran and Charitha Ratwatte’s relative in charge, Sri Lankan Air was to be sold to the US military business front company – Texas Pacific Group or BlackStone.
US wants to control Sri Lankan airspace for its Cyber war in Asia and Indian Ocean. As it is IWS Helicopters is a US front company.
Sri Lankan was being run into the ground by both Rajapaksa and Wickramsinghe in order to be asset stripped and sold cheap to TPG or BlackStone , which has much in common with Black Water military contractors and assasins in Afghanistan exposed by Edward Snowden. Eran should be quizzed about why the TPG group deal to gift Sri Lankan Airlines after debt trapping and asset stripping it fell through?
Over to you CT Editors- keep up the good work!
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Dr. Gnana Sankaralingam / February 9, 2020
How can Ranil get a post in UNHCR when he has blood in his hands. He was a member of UNP inner circle which organised and executed the 1983 riots, which killed several Tamils. Though he did not actively take part in it,.he knew about it and until now has never spoken the truth about it. But in 1989 campaign against JVP, he ran a camp in Batalanda and actively took part in torture and murder. As for commonwealth post, it is up to other nations to decide whether to have a person known for his double game and shielding of fraudsters and murderers.
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Lester / February 10, 2020
“How can Ranil get a post in UNHCR when he has blood in his hands. “
For the same reason you were able to secure a medical license in the UK, despite supporting a banned terrorist outfit. You never personally handed a cyanide capsule to a 10 year old child (this job was left to your comrade Adele, also hiding in the UK), yet you and other members of the Tamil diaspora helped to create the environment that made it conducive to do so. Without the millions in annual income provided by the Tamil diaspora, the LTTE could not have run its various operations.
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Weeraputhra / February 10, 2020
Your wild imagination is running amok. The Rajapakse’ have a lot to say about this Ask them how Adele moved out of SL. The cat may soon be out of the bag. The noose is tightening around the necks of the entire R family
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Dr. Gnana Sankaralingam / February 10, 2020
Lester you were a good man when you were hiding under the bed in fear of LTTE. Now that LTTE is no more, you are talking big. For your information, I never supported LTTE for their crime against civilians and dissidents. When I was a medico-legal officer in the war zone, I stood up against both government forces and LTTE for their crimes and submitted findings without fear or favour. If judges in Sri Lanka had been fair, by now several of your armed forces personnel would be behind bars for deliberate murder of Tamil civilians. I obtained my medical license way back in 1972, long before LTTE came into existence. You are naive to think that LTTE depended on donations from Tamil diaspora. Please remember that LTTE was banned in UK for their actions and not for their policy of obtaining inalienable rights of Tamils, including liberating them from the clutches of racist terrorist Sinhala regime. By the way why you had kept away in fear during LTTE supporters demonstrated in front of Sri Lanka High Commission in London.
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Lanka / February 12, 2020
Dr Sankaralingam, Sinhala people died and took precautions against bloody LTTE (Tamil) suicide bombing terror dogs. But people carried on their day to day lives for 20/30 years with the protection given by our gallant armed forces. In 2009 they annihilated these terrorist vermin and big crap prabhakaran at Nandikandal ! It was people like you who gave false information about the conflict to UK officials, in order to get your asylum sorted out. As a medical man with some intelligence to say that the Tamil diaspora were not the main financier of LTTE you must be quite naive. Tamils as Tamils have no inalienable rights in Sri Lanka. As Sri Lankans they have the same rights as Sinhala, Tamil, Muslim and others living in Sri Lanka. You and others who wipe the backsides of British politicians can demonstrate in front of the High Commission or anywhere but Sri lankans don’t care a damn.
Where were your Tamil rights when the LTTE forcefully took underage Tamil children to use them as cannon fodder during the conflict?
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Don Stanley / February 10, 2020
Let us be clear that the Rajapaksa-Wickramasinghe, agreement which has turned the Parliament into a “Cesspit of Corruption” was brokered by USAID “reconciliation” experts At the end of the day.US puppet Bondscam Ranil is more diabolical than corrupt crook MR and both must be impeached.
The UNP-SLFP/PP National govt. Corruption Racket with the gigantic cabinet of clowns was to make big pay offs to politicians all in the name of buying post-war “RECONCILIATION.”
The USAID democracy strengthening projects in Parliament like the USAID projects to strengthen the Judiciary are meant to corrupt and pay off politicians and justice system officials to the MCC land scams that advance the US military bases and lily pad project in Sri Lanka.
While the TNA was payed off with trips to US and education for Sumanthiran’s daughter, the Muslim politicians chanelled Saudi funds to Zaharan were used to land grab and destroy industry, agriculture and fisheries in Lanka for the US bases project.
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Punchinilame / February 12, 2020
This reminds of the tie between these two, related by a Canadian
journalist who visited down south and published a blog, stating
that Mahinda first wife was murdered by Mahinda and Ranil
ensured that the file is lost via an ASP who was handling the
investigations – I wonder if any present-day Investigative journalist
will dare to find the truth or quash this matter.
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Purple Rain / February 13, 2020
The Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte is seriously calling for the withdrawal of the US Military from his country; just yesterday while addressing a news conference in Manila he mentioned “the CIA as son of Whore” After decades of US Military presence in the Philippines under VFO, all that country got were prostitution, promiscuity, narcotics, murder, mayhem and every crime one can imagine under the sun. Recently in the UK the US wife of a Military man working in UK under SOFA, recklessly drove her vehicle and killed a 19 yr old kid and she fled the country before being caught. If the GoSL falls into the trap of ACSA/SOFA there is no way we can come out of it.
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velu Rasiah / February 12, 2020
Ganana San.,
I agree 100% with you Ranil’s 21st century fox activities. He is clean shaved and well dressed deceptive, crooked and corrupt politician who saved the corrupted MaRa dynasty. he should never be given a job even in 7 eleven.
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Amarasiri / February 9, 2020
CT,
Identity an organization that needs to be messed up. Then recommend Ranil Wickramasinghe and Mahinda Rajapaksa. They can do wonders.
Better for Ranil W to retire.
Ranil W still wants to be the leader of the UNP?
It will be better for Ranil W to become a saffron clad “Buddhist “, BUDDHA-AGAMA Monk. Then he can get the imbeciles to prostrate to him, like they are doing with other Saffron clad Monks.
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Craig / February 9, 2020
I don’t think anyone can beat the biggest looter. From the Tsunami robbery to the pre 2015 bond scams to Lalith Weeratunge to Gamini Senarath to.. Who was the finance minister during all of these and during the Airbus deal? Who terminated the emirates agreement? Who was the know-all governor of the central bank? Who was the Secretary to the Treasury? All back in action. Who tried to reappoint Kapila one day after the Oct coup (for a clean up)? And Ranil was his guardian angel, his protector.
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Chethiyasena / February 11, 2020
He surely is qualified for the UNHR post!
Has a doctoral on the subject from University of Butterland – where he is said to have been involved in intense research.
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Dr. Gnana Sankaralingam / February 11, 2020
In 1988/89 Ranil Wickremasinghe and CA Chandraprema joined hands to kill several JVPers. If Ranil gets a post in UNHCR Geneva and if Chandraprema becomes Sri Lanka permanent representative in Geneva, then they can resurrect their murder combination once again and kill several Sri Lankans living there like IP Nishantha de Silva.
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Amarasiri / February 11, 2020
AUTHOR: COLOMBO TELEGRAPH,
RE: Mahinda Rajapaksa And Ranil Wickremesinghe Equal Partners In Massive SriLankan Frauds
Pak. envoy wonders why SL not developed like Singapore
http://www.dailymirror.lk/breaking_news/Pak-envoy-wonders-why-SL-not-developed-like-Singapore/108-182828
“Pakistani High Commissioner Muhammad Saad Khattak said he wondered as to why Sri Lanka could not become a developed country like Singapore when it had all the necessary assets and a literacy rate as high as 97 percent.”
“The High Commission organised a seminar titled “Peace and Stability – An Imperative to Prosperity in South Asia” at BMICH Colombo recently. The High Commissioner was addressing the function. He said South Asia was home to 1.8 billion people, and 16.1 percent of them live on less than two US dollars a day.”
“This is the state of affairs. All these people deserve an honourable living,” he said. He said there was reference to a fight between two brothers in the region.
“It is the elder twisting the arms of the rest of his brothers. It does not allow any country to exploit its full potential. Why Sri Lanka cannot become Singapore when its literacy rate is 97 percent and has all the assets,” he said.
Pakistani High Commissioner Muhammad Saad Khattak, the reasons are:
1. Mean IQ for Sri Lanka 79, most are imbeciles, whereas for Singapore 108. Sri Lankans can read and write bit cannot comprehend and think.
2. Sri Lanka, official language is Para-Sinhala, whereas the official language of Singapore is Para English, that is a global language of commerce, industry and science.
3. Seventy percent of the imbeciles follow a distorted version of Buddhism, called Buddha-Agama, Budda’s Religion, distorting Buddhism, and insulting the Buddha and his philosophy. They also prostrate to monks, trees, statues and even a tooth.
4. The cunning politicians exploit and fleece the imbecilic populace, who keep re-electing them.
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Nelita / February 11, 2020
Why do you think this colossal Failure is fit for international assignmen?
Only one place fit for the disposal of such Humongous Impresario.
Where the????? roam
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JD / February 9, 2020
It is stupid to expect profits from Sri Lankan Air Lines as since the day it was taken back from Emirates air lines, friends and relatives of the two eternal leaders run the air line. That isin addition to 7000 work force fir 24 air crafts some of which are not airworthy I suppose. Nishantha Wicramasinghe the old playboy, nothing to talk about him. He was the political authority there. Ranil also hired the Air Line cafetaria manager to look after the air line at a cost Rs 4 million I heard. That is for mo nth or for year. So, for over a decade, it is not run as a business.
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D. P. / February 9, 2020
JD,
Hey, stop passing the ball to Ranil & MaRa’s brother in law Nishantha. Mara himself is known as a leading playboy. The real crooks are nobody but Ra..kse brothers including GoRa. Kapila Chandrasena also has now become another scapegoat for your beloved clan. Why is it so difficult to admit the ugly truth & kick the all thieves of both parties out? Desperate efforts to save one group won’t do any good unless you, like Derana, Hiru & Maubima, have also some stake in the deal!
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I know how hard it is to break the loyalty to a beloved leader but, if the priority of engaging in politics means to serve the nation, the unconditional loyalty has place in politics.
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rama / February 10, 2020
By the way what happened to Nishantha Wickremasinge the Lothario? Shocking that this fellow who could not rise to the occasion had all the time to enjoy platonic or whatever relationship he had with the women.No wonder SL Airlines went kaput
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ajith / February 9, 2020
Both Rajapakse family an Ranil group were together robbed this nation and put the tax payers and citizens of Srilanka to loose everything. Unfortunately Sinhala majority could not understand the real motive of these evils. The ethnic divide was created by these evils to hide all their crimes. This peaceful land is now become a playground for India, China, USA and Russia.
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D. P. / February 9, 2020
ajith,
There aren’t any proof to prove that Ranil was engaging in or approving others to engage in corruption on behalf of him until Arjun Aloysius’ PTA became a CB primary dealer. Despite Ranil’s undisputable involvement in the bondscam, I still don’t believe that he personally benefited from the scam. He may have done it to pay off 2015 election bills of the UNP. But Ravi K is a different story altogether.
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However, I’m not hesitant to say that MaRa’s whole political career is repleted of all kinds of crimes & corruption intended not only to support his political life but also to enrich his family (brothers, inlaws & children). But, unlike Ranil who at least tried to keep the rest of the party away from corruption, MaRa willingly made the corruption a culture in his political system so that his leadership wouldn’t be threatened. Since everybody around him benefited from him one way or another, none will dare to stand to criticize him. His taped call to Ranjan Ramanayke reminding him of an illegal favor is a good example for his leadership style – a pure patron/client relationship, a system that destroyed SL police & the legal system completely.
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Ranil’s biggest mistake is his willingness to work with such a crook! He would have been better off if he chose to work with the corrupt media than to make secret deal with MaRa, I think! That doesn’t mean I would have approved such deals but, at least it could have helped him to reach his political goals. Ranil had a vision but his poor leadership style & unwise political strategies failed him.
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ajith / February 9, 2020
D.P,
I fully agree with you about MaRa’s but Ranil have failed to bring MaRa’s corruption during the past four and a half years. Further MRRa’s family is closely linked tothe murder of Lasantha and the Rugby player Thayabudeen. He failed to bring those murderers into justice. He had enough evidence to proof the crimes of Karuna and KP. IF LTTE was real terrorists the role of both Karuna and KP is more than 50% of the terrorist activities. They can forgive Karuna for helping them to defeat LTTE but KP was not arrested until the end of war. He is free without any investigation or exploring his role in the war and what happened to the LTTE assets he hold. None of the Srilankan Sinhala political leadership including Ranil keep silent on this matter. Who they want to protect? Is it KP or Is it those benefitted from KP?
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kulan / February 10, 2020
UNP even armed LTTE against IPKF. Else Tamils would have got the good sides of the accord. In the Indo/lanka accord many ex tamil militant were pardoned
Today there seem to be no solution for them with the missing persons & prisoners
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gerard / February 12, 2020
How naive to think RW had nothing to do with corruption, maybe he didn’t directly take the funds but he must have benefitted indirectly through his ”friends” generosity, just look at some of his closest associates; Ravi K, Kiriella, Mahendran, Ratwatte, Malik S.. Ranil is no better than a majority of our politicians, putting self and cronies ahead of the Country. If a man his age can’t understand what’s what, then he’s a fool and has no business asking for our votes.
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Weeraputhra / February 10, 2020
Trust me this peaceful land will be fragmented, becomes another Yemen and there is no stopping this. Corona virus will be used in a big way for the economy breakdown and then enters Modi because China is doddering. Modi and Trump will screw SL then enters Imran with his bat it is scary but the future for SL is very bleak. WE SHOULD HAVE THOUSANDS OF JAWANS PARADING THE STREETS OF SL. THE R’S MARA GOTRA, BARA, CHARA NARA WILL BE IN HIDING TO COVER THEIR ASSES LEST THEY GET TOTALLY SCREWED, This family has sold SL to the unknowns and soon they will be unknowns in their own land of birth
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Seyed Niyaz Abdeen / February 15, 2020
Ajith, are you implying that the illiterate and literate Sinhala majority of this country are idiots who are unable to identify the political crooks and corrupt officials serving this country are supported by blind faith.
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Spring Koha / February 9, 2020
Good People, looks like the smelly brown stuff has really hit the fan this time.
The thing is that all this has been known for sometime. This is a classic case of ‘unuth ekkai, munuth ekkai’. 90% of our politicians will take their chances to serve themselves (+ their families + their friends) when their time comes up. The mugs who vote them in will pay the bill. Some smelly foreigners refer to Mother Lanka as ‘a banana republic in the sun’. Cheeky buggers! but how can we argue with them? Our only hope is that someday the generation will arrive that will replace the current milieu of politicians with proper, good honest governance and deliver nirvana to us (preferably in our lifetime).
Hope is all we have to make our lives worth living.
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mike / February 11, 2020
Spring Koha – In fact, Ranilpaksha deserves some of the smelly brown stuff that you just described!
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rew / February 9, 2020
Wickremasinghe, you have been a shame as a leader of the UNP, and your persistence in hanging on and/or trying to edge into an international post is disgusting. Utter shameless failure.
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rajash / February 9, 2020
They have an agreement “you scratch my back I scratch your back”
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meer / February 10, 2020
rajash – Another way of putting it “Ranil sniffs MaRa’s rear and MaRa sniffs Ranil’s rear”. This has been going on for a long, long time. That is why Rajafucksha and cronies were not prosecuted!
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Pronto / February 9, 2020
Perusing this situation of Leadership battle in the Green party, my mind springs to the old and famous adage”Gona piduru kanneth nehe; Kana gonata denneth nehe”etc. He is such a hateful man who has barricaded Sajith from gaining the top seat supported by Akilaya,Raviya and Wajiraya.
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rama / February 10, 2020
Aha my dear have you heard that “ABUDDASE KALE LABUTH THITHAY”. Now it is like “Apata Puthe Magak Nethe”. Kalakanni minissu api ivaray
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Eddie Wijesuriya / February 10, 2020
Tamil is responsible for destroying the . U. N. P, the grand old party . Even his own father, along with the old brigade must be somersaulting in their graves. A despicable asshole.
For god’s sake, buggeroff.
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Native Vedda / February 10, 2020
Eddie Wijesuriya
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“For god’s sake, buggeroff.”
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Thanks
This is what I have been telling the stupid Tamils, Sinhalese, Muslims, …. for many years.
When are you planning to “b****r off”?
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Weeraputhra / February 10, 2020
Sorry your English is horrid please go back to a school in the UK. Are you talking of one Tamil or Tamils in plural. You should just put a noose around your neck or your “never rising organ” either way you will hit the grave
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Save ul / February 10, 2020
Pilots Guild is another corrupt party to this mess. They were enjoying the spoils of these. They cooked the books and got their totally un qualified head promoted to a CO level. This was purely feeding the white man lobster at someones house. Also look at the bank accounts of head of finance, former HOE and his junior boys, who are also playing pandu with the current CTO, former GCFAO, former COO and cabin development person. RW’s cronies protected the looters becasue they had coffee shops. RE’s board was the worst. Then came the best CeO ultra corrupt crook who had to leavr africa in a hurry. Why is he getting new aircraft? When he anf his board and his CTO, CFO and cronies was saying that the fleet is too much wide body? Also why are we hoing after some strange leasing Companies?history will repeat.
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Nosey Parker / February 10, 2020
This charlatan has hoodwinked the people of this country for several decades now, pretending to be a great visionary and intellectual . Whenever he had the opportunity to prove himself he has failed miserably . The amount of tax payer funds he has wasted on useless jaunts around the world ,
massive security details and bullet proof vehicles must run into several billion rupees. It’s time the public start a campaign to oust him from the UNP immediately.
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kautilya / February 10, 2020
The present day commission sharks must know Former Transport Minister Mr.Anil Munasinghe under Mrs.Bandranayake’s government did with regard to commission
received when he purchased railway engines for SL railways a French company offered him a huge commission he declined the offer and informed them to hand it over to SL treasury.
Similar manner he purchased Fiat buses for CTB from a Italian company they also offered him a commission he declined the offer asked the relevant company to provide Fiat cars for SL government use in lieu of commission.
Also note that he used cheapest car in Europe 2 cylinder Citreon 2CV for his official use.
Do we find these type of honourable gentlemen today?
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Ad / February 10, 2020
Wasting time playing blaming games. High time people of some integrity in the public service do their job properly and book the rascals for good.
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Mallaiyuran / February 10, 2020
They are equal partners on all atrocities happened in last 15 years; twin brothers; Dutugemunues. That is the only reason the Sinhala Buddhist didn’t let Ranil and Old King go out of politics even in their 70s 80s. Impunity, corruption, nepotism, flexing and corrupting constitution for their advantage, selling lands to China……….Ranil did all white collar crimes Old King did/does, but Ranil didn’t go publicly to murder or rape (at least I didn’t read).
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Menik / February 10, 2020
Regime after regime, party after party, politician after politician, Sri Lanka is cursed with corrupt, unpatriotic leaders, who make us embarrassed, and keep doing harm to our country, economy, and image. Now it has come to “I scratch your back, and you scratch mine” tactics by these people. Shame. Shame. Shame.
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Buddhist / February 10, 2020
Birds of feather flock together! Mahinda is a crook. Not only a crook he is a ladies man as well. He has been calling CEO’s of State Banks to give loans to his ladies. Unfortunately the voters, especially the villagers are so blinded by Kudu medias Derana and Hiru TV channels they continue to trust Mahinda. Even today Sajith Premadasa or any UNP MP is able to bring the truth to the village voters.
Gotabaya’s name internationally is spoilt. His family and his future generation (as he has only one son now a US Citizen) will be growing up in the USA. Due to the present bad name Gota has, his Grand Children will never recognize Gota as their Grand Father. There is only one opportunity Gota has now is to clear his name so that the future generations of Gota will recognize him for his good deeds. Will Gota have the guts to put Mahinda and his gang of thieves (including Mahinda’s crookish children) in their place and clean up the act in Sri Lanka?
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Suzy Wong / February 10, 2020
During the Rajapakse regime there was so mch corruption and waste of public funds dragging this country towards an economic crisis. This paved the way where people ousted the corrupt regime and brought into power the yahapalana government to eradicate corruption and poverty. Sadly the leader of the Yahapalana regime after coming to power was only interested in giving into the demands of the Western countries, the diaspora and finding ways to pay the loans taken by them for election purposes. The leader shoved all the corrupt deals of the previous regime under the carpet to cover his misgivings.
Sri Lanka does not have much more time to get back on her feet or go down sinking. President Rajapakse will lead the country for the next 5 years. To achieve his goal of a revived Sri Lanka he will need the authority as well as a government that will support him. The pohottuwa parliamentarians are refusing to step down to accomadate the educated candidates from Viyathmaga. The Prime Minister is upto his old habits shown by the nominations he had submitted for responsible positions in the government as well as by the large contingent of irrelevent people he had taken with him to India. A victory for Pohottuwa wil be disaster for the country tieying down the authority of the President. The revived UNP under Sajith has an opportunity to be a responsible party and help the President to take the country out this mess. He should meet up with the President and accomadate the candidates from Viyathmaga along with the honest and educated members of the UNP. He could help the President by supporting to get the 2/3 rd majority needed to change the constitution and give the President the authority to rule the country. Hope Sajith will act intelligently and work hand in hand with the Hon President in the revival of the economy of Sri Lanka. Once we get back on our feet we can start playing politics again.
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JD / February 11, 2020
Mahinda Rajapakse rejime bought funds from a Primary Dealer at a rate of 29%. In oreder buy funds whole sale rate, retail rates, day to borrowing people and lending should be some where of 60% or so. So, Dr. Wijewaerdane is fooling us. It is the same with Ranil. So many errors to show, But. sri Lanks was growing only at a rate of 6%or low. How come Ranil borrowed at 12-14%.
Another Journalist say, Ranil has only a LAW degree while Arjun Mahendran’s degree is Philosophy and that is also from a Theological affiliated with Oxford. Mahendran had been in the director board of a private Financial firm and not in an international bank or even PEOPLE’S BANK.
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JD / February 11, 2020
kAPILA xcHANDRASENA’S METHOD is every politician’s stealing (not stealing taking what is given, but, there is system abuse). So, the govt should assess every politicians asset accumulation since they began the employment in the parliament. They take contracts in the name of wife mostly, if not others, some had got, I heard, in the name of Nanny’s name, contracts, sales and they have lands and buildings every where in the country, in foreign lands, foreign accounts in different countries including small pacific, Indian Mediterranean islands.
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Manmada / February 11, 2020
Now what will happen when a hooligan and a homo get together to form a partnership?
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Adrian / February 11, 2020
What will happen is that the hooligan won’t dare bend down to pick up the bribes.
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Grero / February 11, 2020
The writer is a bullshitter
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Garawi / February 12, 2020
The NPM and the Vikalpaya has been saying all the time that Ranil and MR played together against the people of Sri Lanka. That’s why they put forward a candidate who is clean and never been a politician before. But sadly only a vre 50,000 believed then voted for a change. It’s heartening to see that at least now the people seem to realise the truth. Hopefully these crooks will be voted out in the next election. Else the same old story will continue.
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Kusal / February 13, 2020
JRJ must be turning in his grave for bringing this godforsaken Batalanda Ranil into politics.
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