Navy Commander guilty of breach of disciplinary code: As CSN colossal frauds surface its Broadcasting channel is sold to another

(Lanka-e-News -07.Jan.2016, 11.30PM)  Navy lieutenant Yoshitha Rajapakse has gone overseas about 70 times but has obtained the necessary permission from the Navy only on 27 times to make his foreign trips. Yet the Navy Commander has not taken any disciplinary action against him . Therefore it is the view of some Navy officers that the Navy Commander has aided and abetted in the violations committed by  Yoshitha.

Of course it is understandable since the Navy commanders were appointed by the Rajapakses and they were the shameless lackeys and stooges of the Rajapakses , disciplinary action was not taken against the culprit Yoshitha by them , but what is unimaginable and incomprehensible is the Navy Commander Ravindra Wijegunawardena appointed by the president of good governance taking no action whatsoever against Yoshitha . The same Navy officers have therefore justifiably arrived at the conclusion , for both the incumbent president and the navy Commander protecting and shielding the Rajapakses is much more important  than serving the genuine interests of the Naval forces.

Meanwhile , Yoshitha while functioning as the unregistered owner of the CSN has through the presidential secretariat taken the building located at No. 21, Sema Building, Janadihpathi mawatha , Colombo 01 on rent basis . Moreover , by commencing the CSN at this building without obtaining permission from the presidential secretariat , a grave offence has been committed by Yoshitha . What’s more ? two employees attached to the presidential secretariat have been working for the CSN while collecting salaries from the secretariat. 

The CSN has spent nearly Rs. 90 million and got down an OB truck and other ancillary equipments from a foreign country . For valuation purposes , an invoice with a lesser value had been fraudulently submitted  to the Customs. The actual invoice has been  by now taken into the custody of the police for investigation. Owing to this fraud , the massive duties due to the government have been deprived. At the same time the CSN has not made any payment in respect of this OB truck and its ancillary equipments, it has come to light. These payments have been illegally made through fraudulent channels , that is monies collected via wrongful channels have been diverted to make these payments using a foreign party.

While the CSN TV channel became the cynosure of all eyes , the CSN broadcasting channel that is associated with it had been sold to one Niranga Hettiarachi after blindfolding everyone. When the colossal frauds were surfacing of the CSN TV channel , the valuable goods  belonging to the CSN broadcasting channel had been moved out on the sly from the building .

The Directors of the CSN TV channel who are suspects in the colossal fraud are also Directors of the CSN broadcasting channel , and some of them are already in remand custody. They  have not only misused the CSN TV channel  but even the Broadcasting channel for the same purpose , as a result the broadcasting channel had to be closed down in vain. The Broadcasting channel had been also been made use of utilizing  state assets wrongfully .

By now the Broadcasting channel is closed , and Niranga Hettiarachi is getting ready to  re launch the perfidious cycle  under another name. Prasanna Jayasundara who jointly robbed with Yoshitha  and Nishantha Ranatunge is tipped to be the CEO of this new Broadcasting channel. 

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by     (2016-02-07 20:44:43)