Phones of Maithri, 27 supporters being tapped!

 Wednesday, 03 December 2014 

Secretary to the ministry of law and order Mahinda Balasuriya has ordered police to tap the telephones of common opposition candidate Maithripala Sirisena and 27 of his supporters and gather information.

Accordingly, a newly-established Unit 03 at the radio room of Mirihana police is tapping their phones. Those who work at this unit are barred from taking their mobile phones to their workplace. Working in shifts, three 8-hour shifts a day, they have to listen to and record the conversations.

The State Intelligence Service similarly tapped the telephones and mobile phones of Chandrika Kumaratunga, Ranil Wickremesinghe, Mangala Samaraweera, Nimal Siripala de Silva, Ratnasiri Wickremanayake, D.M. Jayaratne and Maithripala Sirisena, but could not find out the identity of the common candidate until the last moment. The SIS has now found out that all communications regarding the common candidate had been carried out in writing.

The president has tried to hit former SIS chief Chandra Nimal Wagista when the former was informed by the latter that the SIS could not find anything suspicious although they had gone through the SMS and email messages of these opposition politicians. Wagista was removed from the position last week.