State Minister Sujeewa Senasinghe who stands accused of receiving Rs 3 million from W M Mendis & Company, an affiliate of Perpetual Treasuries Ltd (PTL) has acknowledged that he did in fact receive this amount when he pledged to donate an equal amount to a charity.
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Senasinghe however imposed the caveat, ‘if the Speaker Karu Jayasuriya or a Chief Prelate asked him to do so.’
In a bid to control the damage to his reputation caused by his campaign team accepting money from PTL, which is at the heart of the Central Bank bond issue scam, Senasinghe addressed the media, claiming he had no knowledge of such a donation.
PLT is said to have made billions in the said bond scam.
Senasinghe said in his defense that at the time the money was received ‘there was no information that Mendis & Company was attached to PTL’
Matilda Ellepola / June 9, 2018
Holy Moly ! what rubbish is this ? it looks like after the s*it hits the ceiling fan., this guy remembers about the kick backs from Aloysius and Co.,
We are the general masses are fools to believe this BS from our so called Law Makers as they are called in western democracies., this man himself a Lawyer or a Low-yer who should know this is a graft and in a law abiding country., he will be counting the metal poles in a prison.
If this is the new precedent., you dont need a Bribery dept., anyone caught., can declare., I will pay back the money for a charity if a Mahanayake requests.
MA-RA and the gang stole in USD Billions and these guys in hundreds are stealing millions of poor masses money.
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Analyst / June 9, 2018
Yes where are the names from the Swindlers List of Mara&Co???
Why silent??
Apparently NR the young puppy of the MODAMULLA CLAN the SYNTHETIC LOWYER was a ” Pal” of the ” Mara Puppylings ” who helped to TRANSFER all the Racing cars , Luxury cars bought from the State wealth , including the wealth of the nation , to the Middle East .
WHY THE TRAIL HAS STOPPED ?? Everyone knows that the family and the hangers on we’re the biggest Swindlers of the time??
Why Silent?? Why? Why?
Even Rosy Akka’s son was a good friend of Aloysious Arjuna.??
Come on dig deep into this chess pit and EXPOSE.
THEN THEY WILL NEVER SEE THE DAY LIGHT OF POLITICS, SHIT ,SHIT, SHITTERS!!
Where are the SLFPers, SLPPeepers, DUNFs and the others on the List??
Are they shivering and shitting in their PANTS??
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Analyst / June 9, 2018
This chap’s Doctor Brother a Pain healer of the A…..se who said that he had slept in Sirisena’s bed is a known Racisist.
His Racist Comments on ” Tamil Ethnicity ” is well documented.
How does he chooses his Patients I wonder ???
He should be barred from entering SL for “Expressing Racial Hate ” as a Professional.
There we are , another family on the ” Swindlers List ” I guess..
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Dodo / June 9, 2018
Ranil Wickramasingha and his cabinet of corrupt clowns must b e charged for grand Larceny at CB.
SS MUST resign so too Dayasiri.
SS is such a poor baby – wrong place at wrong time. Bollocks!
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Ben Hurling / June 9, 2018
“WE SHALL OVERCOME”…? By grooming UNP’s 2nd tier to take-over leading positions in GOSL? Where, “Banana Sujee” is a prominent member? MY FELLOW CITIZENS, THINK AGAIN! These guys (Sujee, Sajith, Sagi, Naveen, Akila etc.) aren’t any better than the current top tier clowns. If you think these tainted guys, who engage in politics only for family, business or professional reasons are the solution, YOU ARE STUPID! You will be duped again in 2020! Like you have been since 1948.
Cheers!
PS: All UNP 2nd tier UNP monkeys have sold their illegal duty-free car permits and cashed in grotesque amounts of cold, hard money. All 2nd tier guys in the UNP run around tiny, congested SL in super-luxury 4WD Jeeps, BMWs or Land Rovers, sponsored by poverty-stricken tax-payers. While citizens get wasted on stinking public transport FOREVER. When was the last time you saw any of these monkeys taking a bus or train? THEY HAVE YOU NO SHAME! As citizens, Why do you let this happen? Why do you tolerate this? Does SELF-ABUSE turn you on? What other reason could there be?
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Amarasiri / June 9, 2018
State Minister Sujeewa Senasinghe,
RE: Sujeewa Senasinghe Wants To Donate ‘Ill-Gotten Gains’ To Charity
A very good idea, but it should apply to ALL, ALL THOSE WHO RECEIVE donations stolen from the National Treasury, as well as those who stole from the National Treasury. Instead of donating to charity, do to the National Treasury, where it was ORIGINALLY stolen from.
Can you get all the 118 MP’s and others to donate to the National Treasury too, INCLUDING MAHINDA RAJAPAKSA, BASIL RAJAPAKSA, GOTABAYA RAJAPSKSA AND THEIR CRONIES TOO.
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Don Stanley / June 9, 2018
Bribery Commission must file cases against Ravi K, Senasingha, and Dayasisi NOW!
Ranil MUST be impeached
They must all be stripped of bull shit “parliamentary Privileges”
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Kalu Nangi / June 9, 2018
“These guys” learnt the trick from “those guys”!
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joy muthu banda / June 9, 2018
Sujeewa earmarked as a future President or Prime Minister was out cleaned bowled. His death is a shame but bribary takers beware
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Bineka Venurapolonnowita / June 9, 2018
Exceptionally handsome Sujiva is dubbed as the most eligible bachelor of Colombo. His demise is sad for us single women
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srilal / June 9, 2018
Bineka Venurapolonnowita ,
Pl don’t give that easily , you have got our one and only clown prince who is much more smarter than SS. don’t settle for the 2 nd best , go for the nest of the best !!!!!!!!!
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srilal / June 9, 2018
sorry for the typos . (give up , best …)
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Rajiv / June 9, 2018
Bineka,
You are not his type, if you know what I mean. Did you not notice him wearing leather pants sometime back??
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Dulci aachchi / June 9, 2018
Sujiva maye puthe
tell the truth that it is the royalty you received for writing the book to save aloysius
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Chuti Doni / June 9, 2018
He was before as State Minister was caught taking a bribe to release a copper container from the port, but this time sujiva will have no escape. If ravi k was dumped this Sujiva rogue who is a number 1 liar must be dumped today not tomorrow
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koneswaran / June 9, 2018
Sujiva senasinghe is a cunning fox who has huge leadership ambitions. For that he is prepared to do everything and anything like betraying Ranil W. We must not forget this brute seceretly went and met MR, UNP was unhappy about the meeting
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Jim softy / June 9, 2018
No sujeewa Senasinghe is ready to join with Maithripala Sirisena. They all are friends but politician relationsshipa re different. Who give me the best, I go with him. They do not have Conscience.
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Shoi Baba / June 9, 2018
when it comes to making money Sujiva is nothing else but a street prostitute
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sukharno puthra / June 9, 2018
MY3 and Ranil should appologise to ravi k and reinstate him immidiately as finance minister. when compared with these shark brutes ravi k is a small halmassa
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Chun Paan / June 9, 2018
To retun the money this rogue will take another bribe
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Gopinath / June 9, 2018
If he is a gentleman he must resign
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cho ti si mulakwath / June 9, 2018
This Sujiva Senasingahe’s politic life is now dead. Let’s throw his political corpse for the wolves to eat
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kapati arakshakaya / June 9, 2018
He is so handsome, charming and eloquent. I thought Sujiva Senasinghe will be the next President. My god this bomb shell!
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analyst / June 9, 2018
When the mahindas modern slfp the toplevel capitalist party is doing politics in srilanka, when th e entire business community and capitalist are supporting only one party called mahindas modern slfp, when the entire government mechanism and media is supporting only one party called capitalist modern slfp of Mahinda,what can poor powerless parties like unp or JVP or innocent leaders like Jr or premadasas or wijeweera do.these type of innocent parties like unp or JVP will put in to side by the great capitalist party like modern slfp.that is what happening in srilanka then what is a point of talking about this innocent people like this.
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Raj / June 9, 2018
What a joker. Here is an educated man (compared to other yobs in Parliament) who admits receiving money but unaware at the time as, apparently, it was his campaign team who handled it. Doesn’t his campaign team keep him informed of his generous donors? Anyway, why ask the speaker or the high priest?
Do what your conscience tells you mate. As the saying goes, there is no such things as a free lunch. As a lawyer & a businessman, I am sure you must have heard about that or are you that naive?
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Thondamany / June 9, 2018
Rubbish at its best……………. Oh ! a Mahanayake blue eyed boy?
Oh ! I did not know… unknowingly I bought a popsicle………..to suck……
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Steve / June 9, 2018
Donate the money right away, no need to wait for the Speaker or a Chief Prelate to ask him to do so.
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Nosey Parker / June 9, 2018
What an absolute scum bag ?
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K A Sumanasekera / June 9, 2018
Poor Poodle Club Baby, got LKR 3 Million from Aloysious..
How cool?.
Can” understand how our so called Elite Intelligentsia picked these Scum Bags as their Electoral Reps.
He was boasting the other day that he scored the highest number of votes in Colombo..
That is even more cool.
.Wonder which Prelate tied that Pirith nula on his hand?…
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Disgusted Citizen / June 9, 2018
These are the bloody Amudeyas who have brought all the present curses to a beautiful land.
The only way to shut up these shit bags is to shove their own shit in to their own mouths.
Even this will not shut them up unless their mouths are stuffed full of their own shit and then sewn up.
This is not a pleasant statement to make but the above is the only solution.
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K A Sumanasekera / June 10, 2018
Relax mate,
Hugh Hefner became a Billionaire copying our Amude..
Pity our ancestors didn’t take a patent
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Dodo / June 9, 2018
JVP and professionals and all Lankan citizens must start a protest campaign against corrupt politicians, and get them out.
Ravi K too should be behind bars, not prating about CB!
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Asoka / June 9, 2018
JVP? MURDERERS, GOVERNMENT BANK ROBBERS AND IDENTITY CARDS ROBBERS. NO POLICIES AT ALL. JUST BARKING, SAME AS DOGS BARKING TO MOON. RED ELEPHANT NOW IN RANIL SIDE.
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Fathima / June 9, 2018
“if the Speaker Karu Jayasuriya or a Chief Prelate asked him to do so.” – To receive a black-charity, no need to consult anyone. To give a charity, Karu and Chief Prelate have to sign.
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Douglas / June 9, 2018
The latest “PHILOSOPHY” announced to the world by a “Legal Luminary”; “Legislator”; “Writer” is worthy of consideration. That is: “Take a “BRIBE” and when “CAUGHT” promise to give it to “CHARITY”, but on “Conditions”. There are very MANY of this type of “Philosophers” roaming around the country, enjoying life and if allowed to go about free, our people are certain to bring them once again to that high seat of power. The only way to ELIMINATE them from the society is for the Judiciary to take a very serious view and discharge its OBLIGATORY SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY and put them behind bars, NOT in HOSPITALS, for life and allow them to get rotten and breath their last therein. To achieve that STANDARDS, we need a very POWERFUL and a BENEVOLENT CHANGE.
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Champa / June 9, 2018
Ha ha ha He says he didn’t take any money but he is willing to “return the money taken.”
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COPE members who have accepted bribes by themselves or through their henchmen are more answerable to the public than any other MPs. COPE was established to ensure financial discipline of government and semi-government bodies. Therefore, COPE members accepting money from companies or individuals who have ownership, shares and direct connections to the very public bodies which are under COPE’s scrutiny is a fraud and corruption beyond comprehension. They have accepted bribes using third parties knowingly.
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All the Ministers/MPs who have accepted bribes from Aloysius should be subjected to bribery, fraud and corruption charges and if the culprits are “Lawyers” then their licenses should be cancelled before declaring them ‘persona non grata.’
President recently said politics is not a career but a service. How ethical is politicians who are in service to public accepting bribes in broad daylight not to mention 2 to 200s odd phone calls COPE members themselves exchanged with Aloysius who is a built-in part of the Central Bank Bond robbery.
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All Parliamentarians who accepted bribes from Aloysius should never be allowed come back to Parliament. They should all be declared “persona non grata” by the Parliament including the Mastermind. There should be a limit of Parliamentarians engaging in bribery, fraud and corruption and cheating voters.
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nadarajah / June 9, 2018
robbing -we are not surprised but making a fool of yourself -we are surprised
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joy dhanapala / June 9, 2018
Shaymon Jayasinghe, where are you? can’t wait until your next one. One for the Sunday read pl
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Shenal / June 9, 2018
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Monalisa / June 9, 2018
Apart from other corrupt politicians in this case, the real problem with Senasinghe is:
he continuously lied to public and parliament that money was paid for election duties when moneys were paid after election
he continuously telephoned Alosius while being a member of cope and while receiving money payments. this shows trying to save Alosius
he wrote a book exonerating Alosius obviously as a favour of the money payments.
this shows trying to save a friednd who is a big time crook, Such conduct is unbecoming for a minister and an MP
he received a very high payment than others – rs 33 lakhs
he recently criticised his leader Ranil as corrupt- this was done with malicious intent to cover his own misdeeds especially when Ranil was not helping him
he was caught taking a bribe in the previous copper container release when he was the subject State Minister
BASICALLY SUJIVA SENASINGHE MUST GO
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thrishu / June 9, 2018
Bloody bank robber and rogue. Keep your criminally gotten money, so that voters remember you for shafting them, and kick you in the crotch and throw you out. Another liar with no memory, using devious means to cash the cheques by placing a constable in the firing line to save your own dirty skin, remembering the receiving stolen money only after 3 years of cashing in and only after getting exposed. Liar, criminal, fixer in the COPE committee, foot note manipulator. Stop trying to deceive people through your
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Buddhi Perera / June 9, 2018
You should not give ill gotten money for charity. Better to give it back as they now need money for their legal expenses.
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Eagle Eye / June 9, 2018
Can people allow crooks in this Government to introduce a new constitution. Tamil Diaspora will buy all these guys to get their votes. May be they have already done that. Please investigate whether MPs have taken money from Tamil Diaspora. For heavens sake, do not allow these guys to pass the 20th Amendment or a new constitution. Knowing the weaknesses of President and PM, Vigneshwaran is coming out with all kinds of weird proposals. President does not have the spine to give Red Notice to Vigneshwaran that he will dissolve NPC if he does not stop his circus.
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Analyst / June 10, 2018
Blind Eagle
What do you mean ? Ask Vigneshwaran to shut the shop (NPC) just like that ?? Like your His masters time???
Talk sense man.
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Jim softy / June 9, 2018
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