Namal summoned to CID to query about Natasha’s wedding!

 Wednesday, 10 June 2015
Responding to a tweet by MP Namal Rajapaksa that he has been summoned to appear before the CID, police say no such summons had been issued. However, Namal has in fact been summoned by the FCID, say police sources, to record a statement from him with regard to a recent high profile wedding.

That wedding was of the not-so-popular songstress Natasha Perera and Prihan. Those in the arts circle say the wedding cost around Rs. 20 million, noting that neither of them have that much money to spend. Natasha is not a popular songstress. Her husband Prihan is a monthly wage earner employed by Bhatiya and Santhush. There is reasonable doubt as to how they could have spent so much on their wedding. According to media reports, Natasha’s wedding dress alone cost Rs. one million. The dancing troupe and the Gypsies that performed at the wedding were paid in full.

The Department of Inland Revenue and the Bribery and Corruption Commission have a reason to file action against Natasha and Prihan under the Money Laundering Act.

One of the well known singers who attended the wedding at Colombo Hilton said publicly, “These are the results of ‘touching balls’ of the princes of the royal family.” Agreeing with his remark, the others said that Namal and Yoshitha had borne the full cost of the wedding. It is irrelevant as to what sort of a relationship Namal and Yoshitha had with Natasha.

But, what is relevant to us is as to how they could have had Rs. 20 million to gift a close female friend of theirs.