Sri Lanka police Financial Crimes Investigation Division (FCID) has received complaints against 169 politicians and officials who served under the Mahinda Rajapaksha regime, says Police Media Spokesman Ruwan Gunasekara.He further said facts had been reported to court against 31 individuals.The complaints are being probed and the suspects are to be arrested.MP Sajin Vas Gunawardane has been summoned to the FCID ...
By Sonali Samarasinghe (Cross posted from Sunday Leader July 08, 2007)Damning evidence of the government's secret deal with the LTTE has now surfaced, revealing President Mahinda Rajapakse granted unsolicited multi million rupee bogus housing projects to the Tigers to allegedly facilitate the transfer of money under the deal.The bogus projects were being given to the Wanni even as a water ...
Additional Magistrate of Colombo Thilina Gamage, who has allegedly kept a wild elephant cub in illegal captivity violating wildlife ordnance, handed over the elephant calf to the Wildlife Department office of Battaramulla yesterday.Director General of Wildlife H.D. Rathnayaka said that the magistrate had no legal permit to keep the elephant.A number of persons who kept captured wild elephants in their ...
Sri Lanka's national career SriLankan said it had decided to cancel flights to Zurich, Rome and Milan from May to June. A spokesman of Sri Lankan said that the suspension was since less demand expected during this period.Flights to these destinations are to resume during the last week of June. However, they are to suspended again by September to resume ...
Colombo Chief Magistrate Gihan Pilapitiya ordered Colombo Crime Division to investigate and report an incident of contempt of court by the media spokesman of the National Freedom Front led by pro-Mahinda campaigner Wimal Weerawansa.Accordingly Colombo Crime Division will investigate Mohammed Muzammil's statement of 'Give back the summon to the magistrate himself' when Cinnamon Gardens police station officers tried to hand ...
In fear of being arrested by police Financial Crimes Investigation Division (FCID), Sri Lanka's former Secretary of Ministry of Defense Gotabaya Rajapaksha filed a fundamental rights petition in Supreme Court demanding the FCID made powerless to arrest him.Sri Lankan investigation bodies are after Gotabaya Rajapaksha on a number of issues including Avant Garde maritime security deal which caused loss to ...
Sources close to opposition of Sri Lanka say that a group of male MPs of Sri Lanka opposition United National Party (UNP) have complained that the party leader Ranil Wickramasinghe attempted sexually molest them.The sources said that the charges were handed over to the party secretary Thissa Aththanayaka and it would be forwarded to a party advisory committee to take ...
A pro-Mahinda website reported that President Maithripala Sirisena has agreed to dissolve the Financial Crime Investigation Division of Sri Lanka Police.The website www.helabima.lk quoted pro-Mahinda MP Dallus Alahapperuma and said that the President has agreed to annul the gazette under which the Financial Crime Investigation Division was established.Financial Crime Investigation Division is the most dreaded investigation unit for the Rajapaksha ...
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Ceylon Teachers' Union complained to the Ministry of Education to probe the way the former Minister of Education Bandula Gunawardana offered pianos belonged to the Ministry to a private nursery network.Three thousand pianos were offered to the Ministry of Education by the Korean government.Minister Bandula Gunawardana has given 35 pianos to Carlton pre-school network, a private entity run by Shiranthi ...
A spokesman of Sri Lanka Ministry of Health said to local Sinhala newspaper The Diavaina that 92 doctors were idling in government hospitals while 47 medical centers were shut island wide due to shortage of doctors.These doctors are attached to the Ministry of Health without assigning them proper duty, the spokesman says pointing out that they are engaged in duties ...
Pranks are a major part of the schedules of profit seeking commercial TV stations.Sri Lankan actor Mihira Sirithilaka was once a victim of this kind of foolish prank by a local TV channel.Recently, one such TV station performed an inhuman prank with an underage girl. The story was described by BBC like this.A Mother's Day prank on Cambodian TV has ...
Wangees Sumanasekara has translated this book into Sinhala. The launch is organized and addressed by former X Group members and their current mentors. We adopted this review because of it. Nicolas Sarkozy once spoke admiringly of Tony Blair and of Britain's economy. Lethargic France, Sarkozy suggested during his campaign to become the country's president, could learn a thing or two ...
Sri Lanka's former Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva said to media today that the parliament had no powers to investigate a retired judge.He made these comments speaking on the the request by 75 MPs submitted to the speaker to appoint a parliamentary select committee to probe his tenure.Highlighting President Mahinda Rajapaksa himself had given him a letter highly praising his ...
Sri Lanka government has decided to postpone the implementation of making the use of plastic crates compulsory in transporting vegetable by two weeks.Earlier, the government stated that the persons transporting vegetables in ad-hoc wasteful ways would be brought to books since September 05.However, the farmers protested the move and conducted a strike of bringing vegetable to Dambulla Economic Center as ...
"Mahinda Rajapaksa government, we believe, should be ashamed for handing over an invaluable national asset for such a low price," says Sri Lanka Marxist People's Liberation Front (JVP) issuing a statement on the alleged sell off of Embilipitiya Paper Mill.The communique of the JVP, signed by MP Sunil Handunneththi says the sum of Rs.600 million for which the factory ...
Criminal Investigation Department of Sri Lanka arrested an owner of a medical center for killing a doctor in a bloody competition in specialist channeling business.The suspect confessed that he gave a contract to a friend of his, a captain of Sri Lanka Army to kill Doctor Priyanka Prasad Ranasinghe of Karandeniya in Galle district.Ranasinghe who was the owner of a ...
Sri Lanka major opposition party General Secretary Thissa Attanayaka said that the Deputy Leader Sajith Premadasa will be asked to show cause pertaining to a statement reported by media as he made. The Deputy Leader of the United Ntional Party (UNP) has urged the public to oppose the resolution mooted at the UN Human Rights Council session regarding Sri Lanka. ...
