Impeachment of Chief Justice in Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake playing politics while in office. (File photo Courtesy AP)
-In June 2009 the Supreme Court issued as order to the Treasury Secretary to appoint a Board of Directors for the Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation (SLIC) after the governmental takeover. The Government nominated Pradeep Gamini Suraj Kariyawasam the husband of Shirani Bandaranayake, Chief Justice of Sri Lanka, as the new Chairman of the Board.[5]During his tenure at SLIC chairman (2009–2010) Kariyawasam ran into a dispute with the board of directors over alleged violation of procedures. The Treasury Secretary of Sri Lanka, Dr P.B. Jayasundera intervened to settle this and warned kariyawasam against overstepping his powers as a non-executive chairman of the Board.[6]........(.Read Wikipedia for more deatails). A clear case of insider trading was avoided due to the prompt action of SLIC Directors. [9]From then on Kariyawasam was on his own and did not agree with many decisions that were favoured by majority of board members. Hence, the other directors decided to bring this issue to notice of higher authorities which resulted in the removal Kariywasam from his position at SLIC.[7] On 15 May 2010 Pradeep Kariyawasam was appointed the Chairman of National Savings Bank by the government. The government was accused of disregarding his well documented failures at Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation.[10] In May 2012 serious concerns were raised by media and other concerned parties about his involvement in the highly controversial purchase of 13% stake of The Finance Company at a highly inflated price. This resulted in the intervention of the Ministry of Finance which in turn stopped the deal in the larger interest the public which had invested in state owned banks.[11] IN the mean time Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was carrying out its own investigations into some other alleged irregularities.[12] On 9 May 2012 the main opposition party UNP demanded his resignation accusing him of plundering public funds.[13] Calling the deal a Sophisticated Bank Robbery, opposition lawmaker and leading economist Dr Harsha De Siva said the country needed sophisticated law enforcement officers and regulators to tackle such fraud.[14] Dr. De Silva called for his resignation and said authorities should be allowed to carry out an impartial inquiry and punish any offenders without fear and favor just because kariyawasam is the husband of Sri Lanka's chief justice.[15]Members of five banking sector trade unions of the National Savings Bank (NSB) resorted to a wildcat strike and demanded the resignation of NSB chairman Prdeepa Kariyawasam over the controversial share transaction amounting to Rs.390 million. NSB branch union president, Lionel Wickremesinghe noted that the failure of the government to remove those responsible from the top management would cause irreparable damage to the credibility of the NSB. Unions affiliated to the SLFP, UNP and JVP as well as the executive officers’ union had been involved in the campaign,adding that their aim was to protect the bank and that the depositors should not panic as the bank had a sound liquidity position and their deposits were protected by the government.[16] It alleged that the husband of the Chief Justice of Sri Lanka, Pradeep Kariyawasam, who continued to enjoy the power and position as chairman of the NSB among several other plum postings offered by the Rajapaksa Government in a glaring example of conflict of interest.[17]On May 21, 2012 Kariyawasam tended his resignation from NSB. He told the media that he had sent a lengthy resignation letter to the relevant authorities and added that the letter might be made public later on. However, the copy of the letter was never made public.[18) RefWikipedia
2.CJ’s Husband’s Appointment To State Bank Grounds For Perceived Judicial Bias – New Public Interest Litigation Petition Says
3.Rs.390 mn NSB-TFC deal: Unions sink differences to protect bank
4.UNP raises alarm over NSB investment in The Finance
5. JVP anti-corruption movement complains to Bribery
6. NSB-TFC deal: CID questions Kariyawasam
7. UNP asks for a Parliamentary Select Committee to probe NSB-TFC, EPF and other State entity deals
8. Questions on propriety of Gamage’s reference to CJ at diplomatic lunch-
9. Why no action instituted against CJ’s husband who committed daylight robbery on public funds? -Tissa
10. Not Only The Chairman Husband; Chief Justice Wife Must Also Resign!-UNP leading economist Dr. Harsha De Silva said on May 13, 2012
11. Bribery Commission probes complaint against CJ
12. Corruption commission fast tracks probe on former NSB chief
13. Bribery And Corruption Commission Filed Action Against CJ’s Husband
14. Not Only the Chairman Husband; Chief Justice Wife Must Also Resign!
15. Chief Justice Or Her Husband Must Resign
As you can see, It was the opposition parties that initially instigated the impeachment move against Chief Justice and legal action against her husband, but apparently on instruction of their international handlers all opposition parties (UNP,JVP,TNA) made a sudden U turn and started supporting the accused anticipating a mass support for a regime change
On further investigation by a group of law makers, sufficient evidence has been surfaced to believe that Chief Justice was involved in receiving financial gratitude from a company which was involved in the worst financial scam in the history of Sri Lanka, after removing another bench of the Supreme Court which was hearing the fundamental rights application cases against the company and taking up further hearing of the aforesaid cases by herself, allegedly delivering some court decisions in favour of the company and supressing further hearing for more than two more years. Some critiques even accuse Chief Justice for her part in the greatest conspiracy hatched by the separatists and their international backers to implement their demands through judiciary system bypassing the legislature and help to achieve what they could not achieve through terrorism sustained for 30 years. Wasantha Badara Nalin de Silva athulanthaya 01, athulanthaya 02, athulanthaya 03, athulanthaya 04.
Wimal weerawansa in Hathweni Peya 01, Wimal weerawansa in Hathweni Peya 02,Wimal weerawansa in Hathweni Peya 03,Wimal weerawansa in Hathweni Peya 04--
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* වත්කම් ප්රකාශවල නැති ගිණුම් විස්සක් එකම බැංකුවේ
* උපයාගත් ආකාරය හෙළි නොකළ රු.19,362,500 මුදලක්
* මිලියන 34ක විදේශීය මුදල් තැන්පත් කිරීමේ තොරතුරු වසන් කරලා
* වෙනත් විනිසුරු මඩුල්ලක් විභාග කළ සෙලින්කෝ නඩුව තමන් වෙත පවරාගෙන;
* සෙලින්කෝ ආයතනයෙන්ම විශේෂ ඇටෝනි බලපත්රයක් උපයෝගී කරගෙන නිවසක් මිලට අරන්
* තමන්ට එරෙහිව නඩුවක් ගොනු කළ නීතිඥයාගේ සහෝදරියක වූ මහේස්ත්රාත් ඈන් ස්වර්ණාධිපතිට හිරිහැර කරලා
* අධිකරණවල නඩු කාරණා විය හැකි හෝ මත භේදයට ඉවහල් වන කරුණු හෝ සම්බන්ධයෙන් කටයුතු කරලා
* ජ්යෙෂ්ඨ අධිකරණ නිලධාරීන් සිටිය දී ජ්යෙෂ්ඨත්වයෙන් පහළ නිලධාරීයෙකු අධිකරණ සේවා කොමිසමේ ලේකම් තනතුරට පත්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/11/12)
Shirani Bandaranayake: Protest over bid to impeach judg-BBC-Full Story- (BBC 5 November 2012)
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