(Lanka-e-News -14.Oct.2016, 11.50PM) The land 16 acres in extent with a super luxury mansion situated in Mapitigama , Malwana which Basil Rajapakse has claimed as not belonging to him , was today ordered by Pugoda magistrate D. A. Ruwanpathirane to be put on sale , and the proceeds be deposited in court.
It is the view of many including the culprit (Basil) that just because the culprit who acquired properties in others’ names out of illicit wealth amassed by him via plundering public funds disclaims the properties and says those are not his , Basil could escape his liabilities. This is an absolute misconception .
The FCID had filed action against Basil Rajapakse based on charges of money laundering and abuse of public property . Hence , the Malwana property with the mansion is only a ‘court production’ . Just because Basil disowns the property , and says it is not his does not divest him of the criminal charges filed against him.
Basil Rajapakse a byword for fraud and corruption , and now a prison frequenter (not as visitor) prior to constructing that mansion , had given approval to prepare the construction plan . Moreover , the astrologer Sumanadasa Abeygunawardena alias Saathra Sumane had made the nekatha for Basil , and Basil’s wife had arrived and been there when the foundation stone was being laid for the mansion . The FCID is in possession of all the evidence including the illicit earnings of Basil which were used to build this mansion, and these evidence have been included in the case .
Usually fraudsters are clever , and Basil is no exception . In this case Basil must have thought simply by disclaiming title he has found an escape route . However , he cannot escape from the charges against him of money laundering and abuse of public property .
The case against Basil therefore continues. In like manner , the mansion a t Brown’s Hill , Matara too belonging to Basil has been purchased in another’s name . In that instance too , though he claimed it is somebody else’s and not his , the charges of money laundering and abuse of public property against him are still tenable , and the camouflages and subterfuges of his cannot rescue him from those criminal incriminations.
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The court should sell all such lands a build a separate unit within the prisons to house all the Rajapaksha criminals. As they will be permanent inmates of the prisons.
-- by Sunimal on 2016-10-15
Can the school going child who stole a coconut disown the coconut - yes she/he can,
but the question there was the ownership. The coconut was on the ground and not on
the tree. Basil is making this kind of arugument backed ofcourse by a SLBA man?
-- by punchi on 2016-10-15
