Mobitel distribution a venture under Rajapaksa

Monday, 06 April 2015 

When searching the companies owned by the Rajapaksa following his defeat it has come to light that the Rajapaksa dynasty has shown special interest in telecommunication projects. When investigating further it has being disclosed that the companies owned by the Rajapaksa’s have taken special interest in distributing telecommunication equipments and service to the North and East of Sri Lanka.

When we revealed the companies of the Rajapaksa in an earlier letter we disclosed that Chesmi Consolidated (Pvt) limited has introduced two accounts to the dialog sales agents in the North and East to debit money. A commercial Bank account was owned by the above company but the account which was in the People’s Bank at Pagoda Road (17420048000 2015) is not an account owned by the same company.
The above account is owned by Chelsey Solution (Pvt) Ltd which has a registered address of &, N.V.J Cooray Mawatha, Rajagiriya but later the address of Chelsey Solutions (Pvt) ltd address was changed to 227A/5, Stanly Thilakarathna Mawatha, Nugegoda and the company website too refer to this address.
The specialty of the company is that one of the directors found to be one Himal Lalindra Hettiarachchi whom we referred in our earlier letters is the nephew of Mahinda Rajapaksa and the son of Jayanthi Rajapaksa who is the sister of the former president Mahinda Rajapaksa. The address 175/2 Old Kottawa Road, Mirihana is given to the company which is the house of the former president Mahinda Rajapaksa.
The other director of the company is one Mangalanath Wicramanayake Karunarathna bearing identity number 742560163V. His address refers to 49/4, Arawwala Road, Pannipitiya. At the beginning from the 10,000 shares 6,600 shares were owned by Himal Lalindra Hettiarachchi and the balance 3400 shares were owned by Mangalanath Wicramanayake Karunanayake.

Similar to the other Rajapaksa companies R & J Corporate Secretary Colombo 4 is the company secretaries and H.D. Jayathilake and company are the auditors.

The company which obtains the registration from the preliminary information in May 2007 appoints one Prasanna Manjula Wijerathna as the director on behalf of Himal Lalindra Hettiarachchi in 2011 October. The latter who bears the identity 743143701V is from 168/10 Vidyala Mawatha, Kahawattha. Again in March 2008 Prasanna Manjula Wijeratha was removed from the director post and Himal Lalindra Hettiarachchi is appointed again. In April 2009 Himal Lalindra Hettiarachchi was removed and one Pushpa Janaka Chandana Samarasinghe Dissanayake was appointed as the director. Bearing the identity number 651190142V his address is “Diyagiri” Medamulana. In May 2009 this Pushpa Chandana Samarasinghe Dissanayake’s address was changed to 11/4C, Sumanasara Mawatha, Welgoda, Matara.

In August 2009 Mangalanath Wicramanayake Karunarathna was removed from the director and one Eshana Ranasinghe Ranawaka bearing identity number 872490370V from 26A, Pangiriwatta Mawatha, Mirihana Nugegoda was appointed.

There is no doubt that the director Pushpa Chandana Samarasinghe Dissanayaka is the mothers side relative of the former president Mahinda Rajapaksa’s (Mother Dhandina Samarasinghe Disanayaka). Samarasinghe Dissanayake’s are quite famous in politics and held high positions in the previous regime. The latter withdrew a bribery case complained to the Bribery and Corruption Commission against an officer in the Inland Revenue named Yasalal Samarasinghe Dissanayake who is a Rajapaksa relative.  

The other director is one Eshana Janith Ranasinghe Ranawaka, son of Gandini Rajapaksa who is the sister of Mahinda Rajapaksa living in Deniyaya whose husband is Thusitha Ranawaka.

The shares of this company were again distributed in October 2009 to Pushpa Janaka Chandana Samarasinghe owning 6,600 shares and Eshana Janith Ranasinghe owning 3,400 shares.

In May 2012 one Lakwijaya Harindra Wanshanath bearing identity 750410928V from 10, Sarasavi Gardens, Nawala Nugegoda became a director.

In February 2014 again one Sunil Niranja Ranasinghe was replaced as the director for Pushpa Janaka Chandana Dissanayake who was a director at the Chesmi Consolidated which we wrote earlier.

Finally in February 2014 125,000 worth 10 rupee shares were issued from which 10,100 shares were owned by Eshana Janith Ranasinghe Ranawaka, 150 shares to Pushpa Janka Chandana Dissanayake and 114,750 shares were given to Himal Lalindra Hettiarachchi.

However the final share holders of this company would be the mother’s side relative of elder and the younger sister’s three sons of the former president Mahinda Rajapaksa.

As we stated in the beginning the specialty if Chelsey Solutions is that apart distributing telecommunication equipments and services they were providing internet solutions, external advertising and project management to government and state organizations.

With that specialty during the Rajapaksa era Chelsey Solutions were continuously engaged in distributing pre paid and mobile Simm cards in the North East. We cannot consider that Chelsey Solutions got the distributorship due to the performance in their distributorship but due to the nepotism and influence of the former president Mahinda Rajapaksa. Mahinda Rajapaksa who was serving as the head of state twice is attempting to come to power once for a lower position is only due to the profits he and his family made in mega business deals.