{"id":147577,"date":"2015-07-17T07:37:20","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T02:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=147577"},"modified":"2015-07-29T12:44:58","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T07:14:58","slug":"black-money-racketeers-call-my-brother-a-traitor-srisenas-bro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/black-money-racketeers-call-my-brother-a-traitor-srisenas-bro\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Money Racketeers Call My Brother A Traitor: Sirisena&#8217;s Bro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;One of the men who calls my brother a traitor invested 7 million rupees in Golden Key,&#8217; a brother of President Maithripala Sirisena said at a cocktail party in Colombo last night, Colombo Telegraph learns.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_147575\" style=\"width: 279px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Viyangoda.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-147575\" class=\"size-full wp-image-147575\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Viyangoda.jpg\" alt=\"Viyangoda\" width=\"269\" height=\"257\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-147575\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Viyangoda<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Obviously upset by accusations against his brother, the said individual had also stated the following with a liberal lacing of expletives: &#8216;My brother became President after being in politics for 49 years. This man was in France in the eighties working as a driver and is now eying a top post in a state media institution. I will reveal all and F$&amp;@&amp;&amp; him.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Investors in Golden Key <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/golden-key-depositors-slam-lalith-kotelawala\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">according to Lalith Kotelawala were launderers of black money<\/span><\/a>. He said this in an interview with Upul Shantha Sannasgala a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Colombo Telegraph believes that the launderer referred to is Gamini Viyangoda,\u00a0a columnist who often writes about the ills of greed.\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">When contacted Viyangoda denied having invested in Golden Key. Colombo Telegraph then asked if his wife had invested in Golden Key. Viyangoda angrily denied this too saying &#8216;<em>mama thamuseta kiwwa neda eka paarak?<\/em>&#8216; ( I&#8217;ve told you once, haven&#8217;t I)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Colombo Telegraph learns that his wife Padma Wijesinghe indeed invested in such an amount in Golden Key. Viyangoda a regular columnist and a strong backer of Sirisena recently referred to him as a traitor for having allowed Mahinda Rajapaksa to contest the General Election.<\/p>\n<p>The President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/transcript-read-full-text-of-president-maithripala-sirisenas-speech-on-current-political-situation\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">recently said<\/span><\/a> that prior to his decision to take on Rajapaksa, he hadn&#8217;t known or met most of the organizations and persons who were later involved in the campaign.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VYGK842C71s?list=PLjKY_SNa2U4312Z5yQwLLadariwYixpCp\" width=\"634\" height=\"357\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Full interview;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uXGJlCImSZw?list=PLjKY_SNa2U4312Z5yQwLLadariwYixpCp\" width=\"634\" height=\"357\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":147576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,6969,6980,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-sri-lanka-parliamentary-elections-2015","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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