{"id":150717,"date":"2015-09-13T19:57:40","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T14:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=150717"},"modified":"2015-09-13T22:57:43","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T17:27:43","slug":"where-is-kps-wealth-jvp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/where-is-kps-wealth-jvp\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Is KP\u2019s Wealth: JVP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) says that the present government too is trying to sweep under the carpet, the investigations related to the atrocities committed by former LTTE leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Kumaran+Pathmanathan&amp;x=11&amp;y=3\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Kumaran Pathmanathan<\/span><\/a>, alias KP.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Mahinda-and-KP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-135411\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Mahinda-and-KP.jpg\" alt=\"Mahinda and KP\" width=\"639\" height=\"856\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Mahinda-and-KP.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Mahinda-and-KP-223x300.jpg 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a>The JVP propaganda secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Vijitha+Herath&amp;x=10&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Vijitha Herath<\/span><\/a> says that that the Attorney General has informed, he does not have enough evidence yet to prosecute KP after investigating for over 8 months, charges presented by the JVP against KP in a petition.<\/p>\n<p>Herath told the media yesterday that the AG\u2019s department had first requested time until end of March to investigate the petition against KP which was filed on 08 January and later in March it had asked for a further 06 months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow the AG is saying he has not found any credible evidence against the 46 charges. We would like to know what they are\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Herath said that although the former Army commander had openly said that he was willing to provide information with regards to KP, the AG\u2019s department was yet to consult him.<\/p>\n<p>The JVP parliamentarian said that people were eagerly waiting to know the truth about what happened to the money, gold, ships and other wealth reportedly possessed by KP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough the UNP, when in the opposition shouted that the Rajapaksa\u2019s have swindled KP\u2019s wealth, they are now keeping silent over the issue. The government has to tell the people what they are going to do about KP\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Pathmanathan alias KP was an international arms smuggler who procured massive loads of weapons worth billions of dollars for the terrorist organization that ravaged a deadly war for 30 years. He was involved in arms smuggling operations across Asia, Canada, US and Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lankan authorities arrested KP in Malaysia in August 2009 and brought to Sri Lanka. He was under protective custody of the Rajapaksa government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":135411,"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-150717","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>Where Is KP\u2019s Wealth: JVP - 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\/where-is-kps-wealth-jvp\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Where Is KP\u2019s Wealth: JVP - 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