(Lanka-e-News -27.April.2016, 12.45PM) A cousin brother of ex president Mahinda Rajapakse by the name of Udayanga Weeratunge who was wanted by the Sri Lanka security division in connection with the death under suspicious circumstances of Nittambuwe Noel Ranaweera while he was working for the SL embassy in Ukraine, as well as for selling of arms to Ukraine rebels as charged by the government of Ukraine ,had been met by Mahinda Rajapakse in Thailand. Weeratunge was the ambassador to Ukraine during the ‘nefarious decade’ of the Rajapakses, and later went missing .The photograph herein is testimony that Machiavellian Mahinda and elusive criminal Weeratunge have met during Mahinda’s current tour of Thailand.
The Ukraine foreign affairs ministry had in writing informed the SL ministry of foreign affairs about the arms deals of Weeratunge furnishing details including the method adopted in those transactions, the category of weapons, the names of terrorists who purchased them , and the period during which these traitorous activities took place.
After the new government came to power , based on these involvements , Weeratunge was ordered to return to the country. Weeratunge instead of coming back did the vanishing trick. He disappeared thereby rendering it impossible to conduct the investigations.
While not disclosing his whereabouts, he has been sending e mail messages to the media every now and then making stupid statements that he is innocent. If he is truly innocent why fear? After having been an ambassador for 8 years on behalf of the country , surely he can come forward and prove his innocence before the law ,if he truly is.
Earlier on , based on the suspicions harbored by the relatives over Noel Ranaweera’s death , the court issued an order to exhume the body. Investigations are now under way , and Udayanga Weeratunge the suspect is wanted for questioning.
Noel Ranaweera was got down to Ukraine by Weeratunge on 21 st July 2002 to work in ‘Club Lanka’ , a restaurant of Weeratunge run in Ukraine . After Weeratunge took over duties as ambassador to Russia , Ranaweera was employed at the Embassy. While Weeratunge was working as ambassador , he had been maintaining a joint bank account with Ranaweera .
Suddenly , Weeratunge has intimated to the family members of Ranaweera that the latter died in a vehicle accident in the night of 2014-06-11 in the South of Russia. Because the remains were sealed and sent here , a post mortem could not be performed in SL. However ,when it became imperative that Weeratunge be questioned on this death surrounded by suspicion , Weeratunge went into hiding.
Such an individual who is in hiding and is a suspect in two crimes being met by Mahinda Rajapakse secretly during his foreign tour is of and in itself a criminal wrongdoing , meaning that Mahinda should be interrogated after he returns. Surely ,Mahinda must be aware by now about the whereabouts of the wanted suspect Weeratunge .
Mahinda and Weeratunge are cousin brothers. Mahinda’s mother is Dandina Hamine . Nanda is her sister and she was married to Wilbert Weeratunge . Udaya Weeratunge is he eldest child of Nanda and Wilbert.
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by (2016-04-27 07:24:27)
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