Avant Garde acquisition sparks legal complications ! Defense secretary’s omission can result in US $3 billion loss to government !

(Lanka-e-News- 12.Dec.2015, 1.20AM) When the most lucrative business of providing  security to vessels was being handed over to the Navy based on  the ulterior motives of Kili-Rajitha-Champika – Arjuna to get the Avant Garde business into their hands through the president , the defense secretary Karunarathe Hettiarachi has sidelined  the attorney general when making the final decision  , based on reports from the Lanka e news inside information division of  the AG’s department. 

The revelation made by the defense secretary to a weekend newspaper recently confirms  , so far the government had been unable to do this transfer  on any  legal basis or under legal cover.

Though the AG had informed the defense secretary, in order to find a legal basis to give cover  the dictatorial action of the president, to forward to him all the agreements between Avant Garde Co. and  Rakna security Lanka Co .which is under the defense ministry , the defense secretary has sent all the agreements without  one.

Karunaratne Hettiarcahi as defense secretary and Maithripala Sirisena as president must hold themselves answerable to this non submission of this agreement to the AG. This is the agreement signed between Avant Garde Co. and Rakna Lanka security Co. 20 days prior to the transfer of the business to the Navy.

(Copy of this agreement was published by Lanka e news in an earlier report ) . The defense secretary has not sent this agreement to the AG despite the fact that the latter had called for it many times from him.

This omission by the defense secretary may be to mislead the AG , but the grave issue in this is , the government can court serious disaster owing to the defense secretary’s actions, sources within the AG’s department  revealed. This potential disaster is : if by any chance the taking over is illegal and is contradictory to the agreements , based on the agreement signed so far , the government will become liable  to pay a compensation of US dollars 3 billion approximately !

In the circumstances , if this government has to be saved, the acquisition should be legally and duly done.Sources within the AG’s department however say , because the defense secretary is concealing information , the AG’s department is in a quandary unable to arrive at a decision.

Meanwhile according to unofficial reports reaching Lanka e news, Avant Garde Co. is waiting until the AG makes his decision , to file action in the International commercial courts of England and Singapore to claim compensation. The Co. has said , in order to prove its legal status ,it will produce the international certificates and licences issued to Avant Garde by British Institution of standards and the United Nations Security Council to provide security to vessels. 

If that happens , it will be for the masquerading villians  Rajitha , Anura, Champika and Arjuna who mounted charges against Avant Garde before the media that Avant Garde supplied arms to Bokoharam , the terrorists who attacked Paris , and illegal weapons were seized , to provide evidence to substantiate their charges. Minister Rajitha at  the cabinet media briefing yesterday said , information is gushing out from within Avanta Garde Co. itself.

Might we recall , Maithris , Rajithas  and Champikas who held ministerial portfolios under the last regime , in this same way signed agreements with private companies without careful prudential and providential thinking  . Because the hedging ‘soodhuwa’ agreement was breached by one party, the country had to pay  many millions of US dollars as compensation . This compensation payment is still not over. It is significant to note such a verdict against SL was delivered by the aforenoted International court located in Singapore and England.

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