{"id":132102,"date":"2014-10-24T19:27:48","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T13:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=132102"},"modified":"2014-11-06T23:32:19","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T18:02:19","slug":"cricket-aravindas-stolen-cash-belongs-to-black-money-dealer-bbc-journo-aravinda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/cricket-aravindas-stolen-cash-belongs-to-black-money-dealer-bbc-journo-aravinda\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket Aravinda\u2019s Stolen Cash Belongs To Black Money Dealer BBC Journo Aravinda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colombo Telegraph reliably learns the cash\u00a0including foreign currency\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">worth Rs. 5.1 million that was stolen from former cricketer Aravinda De Silva\u2019s home belongs to black money dealer who is presently attached to the BBC Sinhala Service \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Thisara+Aravinda+Rathuwithana&amp;x=13&amp;y=7\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Thisara Aravinda Rathuwithana<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_116291\" style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Thisara-BBC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-116291\" class=\" wp-image-116291 \" alt=\"Thisara Aravinda Rathuwithana\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Thisara-BBC.jpg\" width=\"430\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Thisara-BBC.jpg 717w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Thisara-BBC-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Thisara-BBC-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Thisara-BBC-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-116291\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thisara Aravinda Rathuwithana<\/p><\/div>\n<p>According to media reports that covered the theft, Aravinda and his wife had been out of the country when the incident took place. They had returned to find out the cash missing from the safe in his house. Aravinda has told media that the money belonged to a \u2018friend\u2019 and he held it for safekeeping but had not revealed the identity. Several other media outlets however reported the \u2018friend\u2019 is a son of a famous astrologer. &#8220;The person&#8217;s name is Thisara Aravinda Rathuwithana&#8221; a highly placed police source told Colombo Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p>Colombo Telegraph <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/expose-rajapaksa-advisors-son-millionaire-black-money-investor-was-recruited-by-bbc\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">made an expose<\/span><\/a> on Thisara\u2019s dealings and his black money. He is the son of President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Mahinda+Rajapaksa&amp;x=11&amp;y=4\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Rajapaksa<\/span><\/a>&#8216;s adviser and astrologer Piyasena Rathuwithana. Black money investor, Thisara Rathuvithana at the time he was recruited to the BBC, had no journalistic experience whatsoever.\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Even following the disclosure on Colombo Telegraph, BBC continued to provide him a five-day work contract without even launching a probe into the allegations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He invested millions of his money in Lalith Kotelawala\u2019s disgraced company Golden Key that collapsed in 2008. Meanwhile he has provided extensive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sinhala\/sri_lanka\/2014\/08\/140820_thisara_aravinda_de_silva_cricket\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">media coverage to Aravinda De Silva<\/span><\/a>\u00a0last August without disclosing the obvious conflict of interest to the BBC authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Colombo Telegraph has been unable to reach Rathuwithana for comment. According sources within the BBC Sinhala Service Rathuwithana is currently in Sri Lanka and even the BBC Colombo correspondent is unable to contact him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":116291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cricket Aravinda\u2019s Stolen Cash Belongs To Black Money Dealer BBC Journo Aravinda - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/cricket-aravindas-stolen-cash-belongs-to-black-money-dealer-bbc-journo-aravinda\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cricket Aravinda\u2019s Stolen Cash Belongs To Black Money Dealer BBC Journo Aravinda - 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