(Lanka-e-News -14.March.2-15, 9.30PM) The former defense secretary Gotabaya Rajapakse is to be arrested on charges under the money laundering Act by the CID. The latter is on the verge of arresting him. While ostensibly running a legally established security establishment , colossal weapon deals have been transacted, and via illicit routes, weapons of the Sri Lankan government have been sold to terrorist organizations world wide . The proceeds of these sales amounting to many billions of rupees in foreign exchange have been appropriated for his personal use by Gotabaya without crediting to the joint fund of the government, based on information that have come to light following invstigations.
Already the necessary instructions have been obtained by the CID from the attorney general’s (AG) department towards this arrest , informed sources from within the AG’s department revealed. Rathna Lanka establishment which are the operators while showing they are fully affiliated to the defense ministry of the government has earned huge sums of foreign exchange in billions thereby . Gotabaya Rajapakse had used most of these monies and distributed them among his close friends and himself. There is copious and cogent evidence bearing testimony to these crimes committed by Gotabaya which information the CID had already unearthed.
All these clandestine deals have been done sans transparency and according to Gotabaya’s whims and fancies. Although Gotabaya had tried to show that this establishment had the legal authority of the government , according to the chiefs of the Auditor general’s department and the AG’s department this establishment had been run ostensibly as a government Institution by Gotabaya , when it was truly a private establishment of his.
If such an establishment is to be run dealing in foreign exchange it must have the parliamentary approval via an enactment . However Rathna establishment has no such approval or legal cover .Besides all these financial transactions have been done outside the government’s joint fund. The amounts involved are in many billions..!
Simultaneously with these exposures of Gotabaya’s dealings with leading terrorist organizations world wide , and sea pirates internationally , the Interpol too has launched investigations into this. The Interpol had sought the assistance of the Sri Lanka government towards this .
The CID had requested the advice of the AG’’s department to arrest ex defense secretary Gotabaya and the main suspects in this colossal foreign exchange and money laundering racket , and on the AG’s instructions they are to be arrested next week , inside sources of the CID disclosed.
Incidentally , it is Lanka e news always first with the news and best with the views which gave a comprehensive report on Gotabaya’s illicit clandestine international weapon transactions , long before these discoveries that are being reported now.
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This is the real “mud” propaganda.........
-- by Rohan on 2015-03-15
Gotabahaya goes from been ZERO to HERO now.....
-- by Michael Pereira on 2015-03-15
God is Great. Hero to Zero, let him think about what they did to SF & white van theary.
-- by Ashantha on 2015-03-16
Working hard to finish the war was his duty .for that only he was appointed giving attractive salary and lot of perks. But if he has done illegal business,he should be punished Nd there can,t be a separate law for him
-- by Kumudu on 2015-03-16
Very well done indeed....
-- by Aku Esufali on 2015-03-16
