Will Rajitha undermine the account details which Anura demanded?

 Jan 31, 2016

Health minister Rajitha Senarathna avoided answering the question raised by the chief opposition whip Anura Dissanayake last 27th when announcing cabinet decisions, about the country’s elite group of people’s account details containing billions of rupees supposedly alleged to be deposited in a bank in Dubai.

Anura Kumara Dissanayake questioned the Prime Minister to inform the factual current situation to the parliament, about Rajitha Senarathna’s the continuous statements about these accounts. Leader of the house Lakshman Kiriella on the following day said that the Prime Minister would answer the question, but he did not. During the cabinet decision media communiqué when a journalist raised a questioned Rajitha Senarathna said the investigations have been handed over to the central bank of America and the required information reaching is getting late.

 

However in many occasions minister Rajitha has spoken publicly about these illegal bank accounts. During the cabinet decision announcement on February 14th minister exposed that more than one billion US dollars deposited in a private bank in Dubai by a member of an elite political family and another three people related to this family.

 

One members bank account had US dollars 1.086 billion, a businessmen cum a MP have US dollars 500 and a former secretary and a chairman of an institute have US dollars 1.8 billion deposited in a joint account. Meantime Rajitha Senarathna’s son Chathura Senarathna said that he saw from his eyes the 420,656 million rupees illegally hidden by the Rajapaksa son’s in the foreign banks.

Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera too once told that illegal money is being deposited in bank in Dubai but expressed his displeasure how these information’s were revealed to the media before investigations.

 

However nobody able to reveal about these with credible evidence so far. Therefore JVP leader Anura Kumara questioned about this in the parliament last 27th.

 

Reports reaching us conform that Sri Lanka lost the opportunity of fetching information about these illegal pelf deposited in a bank in Dubai. In spite of revealing information’s to the media, taking irregular actions and failing to lead stealthy investigations, the Sri Lankan government lost opportunity to get information’s to retrieve the money back.

 

Police inside information emphasized, minister Rajitha, in spite of revealing stealthy information’s before formal investigations, about these Dubai bank accounts and other criminal charges, the investigation team have suffered serious setbacks. Before disclosing about the CCTV footage of the murder of the rugby player Wasim Thajudeen, Rajitha Senarathna said that he saw the murder recorded in the CCTV cameras. However so far no such visuals have been located and if there was such a doubt is created with the investigation team, was an opportunity given for the those criminals to destroy the evidences.

 

Political analysts say serious doubts have been erupted about this. Meantime so far no investigations have started against Rajitha Senarathna about the allegation leveled against him about the ownership of eight ships belong to the latter from the Rajapaksa era. Although a complaint has been made currently to the Commission to Investigate Bribery & Corruption but so far no credible steps have been taken.

 

Political analysts say that it would be problematic that the President and the Prime Minister continue to keep Minister Rajitha Senarathna as the cabinet spokesperson for the amount of allegations leveled against him and for presenting false information’s.