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Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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Thiranjala Weerasinghe sj.- One Island Two Nations
?????????????????????????????????????????????????Sunday, May 7, 2017
1 BILLION LKR REMITTTED TO RAJAPAKSA’S COUSIN, AMBASSADOR UDAYANGA’S ACCOUNT
Image: Udayanga Weeratunga with former President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
Speaking at the parliament on 05th May Minister Mangala Samaraweera
said that Rs 1 billion had been transferred to the account of a close
relative of former President Rajapaksa, when he was the Ambassador to
the Ukraine.
” To date,14 accounts in the Commercial Bank and 2 accounts in the HSBC
in Weeratunga’s name have been frozen. An international red alert is out
on him and he will not be able to hide from us as we know his
whereabouts” the Foreign Minister said.
Samaraweera added that Lanka’s Ambassador to the US during the previous
Government had remitted a commission of USD 332,000 to a bank account
during the process of a purchase of a new office building. He said the
money had been handed over when investigations began.
In addition, the Minister said that a close associate of Rajapaksa, who
had been employed in the Consulate General’s Office in New York during
the former regime, had received a remittance of USD 100,000 into his
personal account, monies which had been allocated for the former
President’s expenditure. He had also obtained an additional USD 20,000
as pocket money on an earlier occasion.
“The son and daughter-in-law of Gotabaya Rajapaksa remained in the
Consulate General’s Office in Los Angeles for two years during the
previous regime. Two drivers had been sent there and they had taken
salaries from both places. The Consulate General’s Office in Berlin was a
safe house for a suspect in the Lasantha Wickrematunge murder” Minister
said.
-Edited version form Rs 1B remitted to Udayanga’s Moscow Account appeared in Ceylon Today.