{"id":142443,"date":"2015-04-07T19:22:19","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T13:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=142443"},"modified":"2015-04-07T20:27:53","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T14:57:53","slug":"tiran-alles-five-others-barred-from-leaving-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/tiran-alles-five-others-barred-from-leaving-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsunami: Tiran Alles &#038; Five Others Barred From Leaving Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Businessman and MP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Tiran+Alles&amp;x=8&amp;y=4\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tiran Alles<\/span><\/a> was barred from leaving the country by the Fort Magistrate\u2019s Court today with regard a financial misappropriation case against him where a company chaired by him and established to reconstruct houses for Tsunami affected families has been charged with misappropriating state funds.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5685\" style=\"width: 213px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/tiran-colombotelegraph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5685\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5685\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/tiran-colombotelegraph.jpg\" alt=\"Tiran\" width=\"203\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5685\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tiran<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Five others suspected of being involved in the corruption apart from Alles were also barred from leaving Sri Lanka. According to the Police,\u00a0the RADA Company has been established under the Chairmanship of Alles who is also the proprietor of Maubima newspaper, to engage in the construction of houses for Tsunami affected individuals in the East Coast.<\/p>\n<p>The company had obtained a total of Rs. 645 million from the Treasury with the approval of the Presidential Secretariat for this purpose but no houses had been constructed so far. Meanwhile the Police confirmed that the funds collected by the company were credited to Oomps textiles Ltd. \u2013 another fake company formed by three individuals identified as Shanthi Kumar, Gajan Kumar and their mother Anandi Shanthi Kumar. The Court had been informed today that through this company and two other bogus companies, a total of Rs. 125 million has been misappropriated by the Company. It was also mentioned that the State funds paid to Oomps Textiles Ltd. had been taken over by Alles and former LTTE-er <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Emil+Kanthan&amp;x=9&amp;y=8\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Emil Kanthan<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile addressing the media today, Alles rejected the allegations leveled against him of misappropriating state funds reserved for the benefit of Tsunami victims using fake companies and said he is a victim of a \u2018targeting\u2019 campaign launched by the current government. He also said however that he posses controversial information regarding those who bear a vested interest in \u2018targeting\u2019 him in this manner and that he would expose them in the near future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To read the related posts click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Tiran+Alles&amp;x=10&amp;y=4\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":5685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tsunami: Tiran Alles &amp; 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