After swindling tsunami money, Tiran swindles welfare money too!

Thursday, 07 May 2015

The owner of Mawbima newspapers, who is found to have swindled millions of rupees received as tsunami relief money in 2004, has also swindled the five per cent deducted from their salaries for welfare purposes, says sources at the newspaper.

The money reduced from employees’ salaries should be credited to a welfare account run by the newspaper company. But, for several years, that had not been done. As a result, the welfare activities of the employees had to be suspended.

When employees questioned about the fate of the money deducted from their salaries, the new financial director of the company, who is the son of Tiran, has blamed it on his predecessor Dushantha Basnayake. Tiran’s son is saying that Dushantha was removed due to his weak management. When the employees inquired from the former financial director, they were told, “Tiran did not allow me to credit the money deducted from you to the welfare account. He used if for other purposes.”