Australian media allegations shock SL

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President Maithripala Sirisena-August 27, 2016, 7:14 pm 

The news that shook everybody up last Wednesday was an article titled "Australian companies linked to bribe scandals in Sri Lanka and Congo" which appeared simultaneously in The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald websites both of which belong to the Australian media company the Fairfax Group. Within the hour it had gone viral in Colombo with people alerting one another about the article over the telephone and sharing the article over social media. The article stated that two Australian companies were embroiled in bribery scandals involving the presidents of Sri Lanka and the Republic of Congo, as the firms sought to secure multimillion-dollar contracts. The company involved in the Sri Lankan case was the Snowy Mountains Engineering Company (SMEC). This was not just an investigation by a media organisation but one involving the Australian Federal Police as well.

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