Customs DG’s Collusion To Embezzle Hundreds Of Millions Tax Revenue Reported To President Sirisena

April 21, 2015 

In a dramatic tern of events the Director General of Customs, Jagath Wijeweera’s collusion with certain Customs officers to misappropriate hundreds of millions of tax revenue has been reported to the PresidentMaithripala Sirisena.

Director General of Customs, Jagath Wijeweera with the President Mahinda Rajapaksa

Writing to the President with overwhelming evidence of exploitation due to the lawlessness in the Customs Administration exposed by the Nagananda Kodituwakku, the former Head of the Customs Revenue Task Force, and now a public interest litigation lawyer.

In his detailed report to the President on these abuses, the lawyer Kodituwakku said that in number of previous occasions he had drawn DGC’s attention to the blatant abuses pursued by certain officers for unjust enrichment and in some cases with names of those officers with overwhelming evidence of their connivance with the ethanolsmugglers.

However, in his report the lawyer Kodituwakku, states that DGC turned a blind eye condoning such actions, apparently in collusion with such officers, incurring colossal loss of tax revenue and therefore he was compelled to report these organised frauds to the Corruption Commission, seeking it to launch a proper investigation into the major tax revenue losses incurred by the Government due to the monumental failure on the part of the Customs chief, Jagath Wijeweera.

We publish below the letter in full;

Mr Maithripala Sirisena

The Hon’ President of the Republic of Sri Lanka

Presidential Secretariat

Colombo 01

20^th April 2015

Hon’ Sir,

You have been given a clear mandate by the people to restore the Rule of Law in this country, which has been completely undermined by the Rajapakse administration.                 Read More