(Lanka-e-News -29.Aug.2015, 10.00 AM) Shocking stories shaking the entire country to its foundation are doing their rounds at Hultsorf that a high rung officer of the Attorney general’s (AG) Department had stooped most degradingly and disgracefully to collect a bribe of Rs. 16 million secretly! When the ex defense secretary Gotabaya Rajapakse is incriminated under the Gun ordinance ; explosive device ordinance; Prevention of terrrism Act (PTA) ;money laundering Act and many others , it is a most perplexing and crucial question , how a recommendation was hurriedly sent to the CID by the AG that there aren’t sufficient grounds to file legal action against ex defense secretary Gotabaya Rajapakse in this present climate and context when there is already an on going investigation (many others in the pipeline) in which serious incriminations against him have surfaced ?
Based on reliable sources , three senior lawyers of the AG’s department who are no longer employed there but engaged in the legal profession still, have got together and given this colossal bribe to this high rung officer of the AG’s department.
Lawyers Kuwera De Soysa, Dulinda Weerasuriya and Nalinda Indratissa were officers in the AG’s department for some time. They are now three prominent practising lawyers. Hultsdorf informed sources are of the view that they should know the inside out of this sordid transaction.
It is an undisputed fact that there is a backlog of cases filed by the police and CID at the AG’s department where AG’s recommendations have been held back for many years. Then how come pertaining to Gotabaya’s case which commenced in 2015, such jet speed expeditious attention was paid to give AG’s recommendation ? The CID officers who are deeply in their toils hoonestly discharging their duties duly with a view to bringing crooks and criminals to book are naturally baffled over this unholy haste shown by the AG to recommend the release of the passport of Gotabaya, the ex defense secretary .
While long delays are common at the AG’s department, what prompted the department to act so hastily in Gotabaya’s case ? One simple example which bears testimony to the delays at the AG’s department is : when the necessary investigation report along with the other relevant suspicious documents and rgeisters were forwarded to the AG’s department to get its recommendation in relation to a massive fraud involving many millions of rupees, in which the suspect had made forged documents pertaining to a land belonging to a German couple , and has also cheated the State tax department in colossal amounts , the AG’s department has still not responded several years after the request was made to the dpeartment for its recomendation. This is only one of the many such instances of delays experienced at the AG’s department where procrastination is a matter of routine.
The case No. of this massive fraud was 769/12 CM when it was forwarded to the AG’s department for its recommendations . A businessman with powerful political connections from Kalutara has made the fraudulent deeds of transfer Nos. 793 and 400. The case No. is B 7108/12 when it was filed at the Kalutara magistrate court.
When this is the lethargic state of affairs in the AG’s department , how come it acted with such great enthusiasm to release the ex defense secretary Gotabaya without permitting the filing of cases when he is implicated in so many criminal cases under the Gun ordinance , explosive device ordinance , PTA and money laundering Act ? This action of the AG’s department has rudely shocked the entire judiciary . Specially , legal luminaries of Hultsdorf are in the process of probing into this issue.
This controversial order given by the AG that there aren’t grounds to file legal action against ex defense secretary Gotabaya despite such glaring criminal incriminations against him , necessitated the Galle chief magistrate Nilapuli Lankapura to release the passport (impounded earlier by court) to Gotabaya to travel abroad.
In other words , the gateway is now open for Gotabaya to bolt from the country before he is taken into custody in the Prageeth Ekneliyagoda case.
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Well - the beginning of good governance?!!! Let them go - nothing happened!!! We the voters get cheated at every turn.
-- by Nic on 2015-08-29
Where can he go?
-- by Truth on 2015-08-29
Sack this AG, bloody thief and bribe taker
-- by polished on 2015-09-03