{"id":162111,"date":"2016-05-11T00:25:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T18:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=162111"},"modified":"2016-05-11T02:49:50","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T21:19:50","slug":"rajapaksa-grilling-continue-at-prefic-fcid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/rajapaksa-grilling-continue-at-prefic-fcid\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajapaksa Grilling Continue At PREFIC, FCID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa, and Namal and Yoshitha, the sons of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa continued to be grilled by the Presidential Commission and the Financial Crimes Investigations Division (FCID) during the week, over their alleged misuse of power, and money laundering.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/the-medamulana-doctrine-and-a-brave-new-sri-lanka\/colombotelegraph-mahinda-rajapaksa-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-46062\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-46062\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/colombotelegraph-mahinda-rajapaksa-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"colombotelegraph mahinda rajapaksa\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/colombotelegraph-mahinda-rajapaksa-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/colombotelegraph-mahinda-rajapaksa.jpg 592w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Gotabaya was summoned to the Presidential Commission of Inquiry to Investigate and Inquire into Serious Acts of Fraud, Corruption and Abuse of Power, State Resources and Privileges (PRECIFAC) on Monday where a statement was recorded over his alleged misuse of aircrafts and helicopters belonging to the Sri Lanka Air Force, while functioning as the defence secretary.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Namal was summoned to the Presidential Commission where a statement was recorded from him also over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/rajapaksas-used-aircrafts-like-local-taxi-service-details-of-aircraft-misuse-by-rajapaksas-and-their-henchmen-revealed\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the misuse of helicopters and aircrafts<\/span><\/a>. Speaking to the media, Namal said that the Commission was making an inquiry based on an anonymous complained they had received. \u201cThey wanted to know from where we found the finance to pay for the aircrafts and helicopters that we used mainly during the election period. They are not asking where we went, but they want to know why we paid and from where we got the money,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Namal added that it was strange that the Commission was interrogating them for paying bills. \u201cThe Yahapalanaya is such that even if you don\u2019t pay bills you will fall in trouble, and even if you pay the bills you will fall in trouble,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Yoshitha, the second son of President Mahinda Rajapaksa who was remanded for alleged money laundering at the Carlton Sports Network (CSN) was summoned to the FCID on Tuesday with regard to the ongoing investigations against him. Yoshitha has once again been summoned to the FCID on Wednesday for further interrogations. He is currently out on bail.<\/p>\n<p>In April last year, Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake said that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/helicopter-bills-passengers-should-pay-says-ravi-k-srisena-slfp-should-pay-says-wimal-w\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">due to the misuse of Air Force aircrafts and helicopters<\/span><\/a> by the Rajapaksas and their Ministers, a huge loss had been incurred amounting to millions of rupees. It was reported that Rajapaksa loyalist, Wimal Weerawansa alone had used SLAF aircrafts some seven times for election campaigning, but had not paid the bills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":46062,"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-162111","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>Rajapaksa Grilling Continue At PREFIC, FCID - 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\/rajapaksa-grilling-continue-at-prefic-fcid\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rajapaksa Grilling Continue At PREFIC, FCID - 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