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Health minister Rajitha Senarathna avoided answering the question raised by the chief opposition whip Anura Dissanayake last 27th when announcing cabinet decisions, about the country’s elite group of people’s account details containing billions of rupees supposedly alleged to be deposited in a bank in Dubai.
Health minister Rajitha Senarathna avoided answering the question raised by the chief opposition whip Anura Dissanayake last 27th when announcing cabinet decisions, about the country’s elite group of people’s account details containing billions of rupees supposedly alleged to be deposited in a bank in Dubai.
Anura Kumara Dissanayake questioned the Prime Minister to
inform the factual current situation to the parliament, about Rajitha
Senarathna’s the continuous statements about these accounts. Leader of the
house Lakshman Kiriella on the following day said that the Prime Minister would
answer the question, but he did not. During the cabinet decision media
communiqué when a journalist raised a questioned Rajitha Senarathna said the
investigations have been handed over to the central bank of America and the
required information reaching is getting late.
However in many occasions minister Rajitha has spoken
publicly about these illegal bank accounts. During the cabinet decision
announcement on February 14th minister exposed that more than one billion US
dollars deposited in a private bank in Dubai by a member of an elite political
family and another three people related to this family.
One members bank account had US dollars 1.086 billion, a
businessmen cum a MP have US dollars 500 and a former secretary and a chairman
of an institute have US dollars 1.8 billion deposited in a joint account.
Meantime Rajitha Senarathna’s son Chathura Senarathna said that he saw from his
eyes the 420,656 million rupees illegally hidden by the Rajapaksa son’s in the
foreign banks.
Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera too once told that
illegal money is being deposited in bank in Dubai but expressed his displeasure
how these information’s were revealed to the media before investigations.
However nobody able to reveal about these with credible
evidence so far. Therefore JVP leader Anura Kumara questioned about this in the
parliament last 27th.
Reports reaching us conform that Sri Lanka lost the
opportunity of fetching information about these illegal pelf deposited in a
bank in Dubai. In spite of revealing information’s to the media, taking
irregular actions and failing to lead stealthy investigations, the Sri Lankan
government lost opportunity to get information’s to retrieve the money back.
Police inside information emphasized, minister Rajitha, in
spite of revealing stealthy information’s before formal investigations, about
these Dubai bank accounts and other criminal charges, the investigation team
have suffered serious setbacks. Before disclosing about the CCTV footage of the
murder of the rugby player Wasim Thajudeen, Rajitha Senarathna said that he saw
the murder recorded in the CCTV cameras. However so far no such visuals have
been located and if there was such a doubt is created with the investigation
team, was an opportunity given for the those criminals to destroy the
evidences.
Political analysts say serious doubts have been erupted
about this. Meantime so far no investigations have started against Rajitha
Senarathna about the allegation leveled against him about the ownership of
eight ships belong to the latter from the Rajapaksa era. Although a complaint
has been made currently to the Commission to Investigate Bribery &
Corruption but so far no credible steps have been taken.
Political analysts say that it would be problematic that the
President and the Prime Minister continue to keep Minister Rajitha Senarathna
as the cabinet spokesperson for the amount of allegations leveled against him
and for presenting false information’s.
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