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ELABORATING ON KARU’S LTTE BRIBES CHARGES RAJITHA SAYS TWO MP’S WERE TOLD 20 MILLION US DOLLARS WERE READY

By Walter Jayawardhana

Minister Rajitha Senaratne said Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam agent Charles Gnanakone had reportedly said 20 million US Dollars were ready to be offered as bribes for 20 turn coat parliamentarians to topple the government of Sri lanka.

“He had told government Members of Parliament that UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe and Mangala Samaraweera are already planning it and former President Chandrika Kumaratunga would later join it,” Senaratne said in Colombo.

Minister Rajitha Senaratne, who is also a member of the United National Party Democratic Wing elaborating more on his leader’s statement in the parliament about the attempt to use Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) money to buy over their party Members of Parliament said according to information so far revealed Charles Gnanakone had talked to at least two MP’s offering money.
He said the two MP’s would make their own statements later and at present they are inquiring from others whether they have also received similar phone calls from Charles Gnanakone.

Senaratne confirming information delivered by Public Administration Minister Karu Jayasuriya and leader of the UNP (Democratic Wing) raising a privileges issue before the Speaker in the open House , said the Australia based LTTE activist, Charles Gnanakone , had telephoned from a foreign country to at least two parliamentarians offering bribes in an attempt to defeat the government in the Sri Lanka parliament.

Senaratne said Gnanakone had been personally known to the two parliamentarians before and they informed the party leader Karu Jayasuriya after receiving the phone calls offering bribes.

Senaratne revealed that Gnanakone reportedly told the two parliamentarians they were ready with 20 million US Dollars to buy over 20 parliamentarians to topple the government in the parliament.
Such a topple in the parliament would not immediately bring down the executive President but the parliament could stop expenditure to various ministries including the President paralyzing the government and its military engaged in a war with the LTTE.

Senaratne said Gnanakone reportedly told the Members of Parliament the strategic political move has been already planned by UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe and his ally Mangala Samaraweera, the leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (Mahajana Wing).

He said when the toppling of the government is complete former President of Sri Lanka Chandrika Kumaratunga currently living in London in a self-exile would return to the country to take a leadership role.

Senaratne said the demeaning behavior of the UNP members of parliament in the House raising jeers and catcalls , constantly thumping on their desks and making other noises during Jayasuriya’s submissions clearly indicated their guilt and the determination to defend Gnanakone Quoting Samaraweera ally Sripathi Sooriyaarachchi from a stement of a press conference he made on September 28 2005 Senaratne said UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe had met Charles Gnanakone before the Presidential elections in 1999. Carrying the press conference the next day’s papers headlined the news as “ Kadirgamar Assassination is a result of a LTTE Conspiracy.”
Charles Gnanakone was arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department of the Sri Lanka police as a suspect of the assassination of the former Foreign Minister Laxman Kadirgamar but later released due to lack of evidence.

LTTE is increasingly using bribes as a tool. LTTE activists have been arrested in the United States for attempting to bribe undercover FBI agents for the purpose of changing their terrorist status in the United States. It is widely accused that the LTTE has bribed several Liberal Party parliamentarians in Canada and several Labor Party parliamentarians in Australia and in the United Kingdom. According to some intelligence reports, the most important investment they made was to buy over a VVIP daughter of a powerful DMK leader who could influence the shaky central government of India. India’s Janatha Party leader Subramaniyan Swamy has charged that several small Dravidian parties in Tamil Nadu are bankrolled by the LTTE.

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