{"id":148663,"date":"2015-08-09T18:03:07","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T12:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=148663"},"modified":"2016-02-02T19:28:13","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T13:58:13","slug":"mr-says-he-could-have-ruined-sajith-premadasas-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/mr-says-he-could-have-ruined-sajith-premadasas-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"MR Says He Could Have Ruined Sajith Premadasa&#8217;s Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa today said that when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Sajith+Premadasa&amp;x=5&amp;y=6\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sajith Premadasa<\/span><\/a>\u2019s sister, Dulanjali Premadasa was caught red handed with a large number of forged currency notes inside a bank, his government had never interfered in the investigation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/sajith-and-mr-clombotelegraph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2983\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/sajith-and-mr-clombotelegraph-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sajith and MR clombotelegraph\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/sajith-and-mr-clombotelegraph-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/sajith-and-mr-clombotelegraph.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a>Rajapaksa said that he could have remanded her and blown up the issue and put an end to her brother\u2019s political career.<\/p>\n<p>He said unlike the new government he never interfered in legal issues and had let the officials do their job.<\/p>\n<p>Rajapaksa said while Dulanjalee had escaped Scott free after possessing a bundle of fake notes, a soldier who was caught with a single fake currency note at the time had gone to jail.<\/p>\n<p>Rajapaksa said that one of his mistakes when in power had been that he was too tolerant and forgiving even to his political opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Rajapaksa went on to say that however, those whom he protected today were attacking him mercilessly calling him a thief.<\/p>\n<p>Dulanjalee Jayakody, daughter of former President R. Premadasa and sister of Minister Sajith Premadasa got caught when trying to deposit counterfeit notes worth Rs 2 million at the HSBC branch in Cinnamon Gardens some time back.<\/p>\n<p>Dulanjali was informed by the bank that the entire amount of cash was fake.<\/p>\n<p>Dulanjali had later informed that the currency was given to her by another person and she had come to deposit it without knowing they were fake. 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