Arms procurement still corrupt

May 02, 2016

Reports reaching us confirm that Lanka Logistics Company who was involved as a mediator and indulged in large corruption during the imports of arms in the period of the former regime is still continuing to do so in the current new government. The information was revealed while investigating the purchase of arms recently took place for a naval training. Despite exercising the transaction directly with the manufacturing company the transaction has been done through a middle agent.

Lanka Logistics is a company formed under the chairmanship of the former defense secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Information’s disclosed that all people worked in the company are close allies of the latter and although there were few changes in the management following the collapse of the Rajapaksa regime still the lower management are in connection with the middle agents. Further information reveal there were many fake intermediate firms involved with this company from Mig aircraft purchase in 2005 and investigations should be conducted against those.