Rajapaksas has agreed to return the public money spent for the Rajapaksa family tomb

Aug 27, 2015

The D. A. Rajapaksa foundation has come forward to return the 600 million given to them from Land cumulate and Development Corporation budgeted for the Weeraketiya Scheme in order to modernize the deceased tombs of the former president Mahinda Rajapaksa and the brother’s father late D.A. Rajapaksa and Mrs. Rajapaksa.

The corporation started its construction under the intervention of the ministry of defense and urban development.

 

The state auditors has sent an audit inquiry to the land cumulative corporation citing this wasteful expenditure questioning why such a large amount of money has been spent to renovate the family tombs of late Mr. & Mrs. D.A. Rajapaksa under the Weeraketiya Development Scheme.

 

The money has been spend for growing lotus flowers, pound engravings, construct a pond, flower railings decorations and to renovate the road reaching the graves.

 

During the state audit it was revealed the former chairman and the management of the land cumulative corporation has spent this large fund when the institution was ailing from a financial crisis and waiting for a grant applied for a large loan.

 

However an internal inquiry was conducted under the current chairman of the land cumulative corporation about this wasteful expenditure.

 

Under this situation when this news was published over the media the D.A. Rajapaksa Foundation has requested a report from the relevant ministry secretary and reported to have agreed to pay the stipulated amount.