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Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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Thiranjala Weerasinghe sj.- One Island Two Nations
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Purchase money paid to shadowy offshore company
Rajapaksa govt.’s controversial MiG deal – Part II
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other key question in relation to the purchase and overhaul of MiG
aircraft in 2006 was that the payment had not been made to the supplier -
the Ukrainian state owned company UKRINMASH, but to a front company by
the name of Bellimisa Holdings Ltd. In 2000 when the Chandrika
Kumaratunga government bought six MiG-27s and one MiG-23UB trainer, the
supplier was DS Alliance of Singapore. However DS Alliance was a
middleman and all the MiG aircraft purchased in 2000 were actually
supplied by UKRINMASH the manufacturers of MiG planes in Ukraine. The
policy of the Rajapaksa government was to eliminate the middleman so
they directly approached UKRINMASH. In the ‘letter of offer’ handed over
by UKRINMASH to the Ministry of Defence on 6 February 2006, it was
specifically stated that this offer for the supply and overhaul of
aircraft was being made in conjunction with a financier providing
financing to the manufacturer and that the payment should be made to the
financier.