Ekneligoda probe reveals Raviraj killer!

Aug 28, 2015

Information that has come to light in the course of the investigation into the disappearance of Prageeth Ekneligoda confirms that former defence secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa is directly involved in the murder of MP Nadaraja Raviraj and his two bodyguards in Narahenpita.

Making submissions to courts earlier, the CID said the then chief bodyguard of former Navy commander Admiral Wasantha Karannagoda and head of the Navy’s white van gang, Lt. Commander Sampath Munasinghe alias Navy Sampath, had committed these murders.

In a confession, Navy Sampath has said that Raviraj was murdered on the orders of the then state intelligence service’s deputy director SSP Maheel Doole, who had told him, “This is an order by the boss (Gotabhaya).”

The murder weapon, a T-56, was given Navy Sampath by Lt. Col. Shammi Kumararatne, the then fourth Army intelligence corp at Giritale, investigations have revealed.

Kumararatne has signed the order to issue the weapon by the Army’s armoury to Navy Sampath, and said the order had come from the then defence secretary. Two independent witnesses have corroborated this claim.