Potential Destruction of Bond Fraud Evidence, Intimidate Whistle-blowers and Block Access to Investigators?
Posted on October 30th, 2016
Dilrook Kannangara
Danuna Tillakaratne’s security firm has been awarded the contract to provide security to all Central Bank buildings by none less than the Finance Minister by a letter sent recently. Danuna is the son in law of Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka, UNP MP. Central Bank security must be provided by the police or the army, not a private security firm. This raises doubts as to their intention.
Are they trying to burn or otherwise get rid of evidence implicating the Mahendrans of the bond fraud? Very much possible. They can also intimidate or even kill whistle-blowers. Further, they can restrict access to investigators appointed by the President. There is evidence of Fonseka misusing army deserters and retirees in his private militia as happened on January 27, 2010. Most personnel in Danuna’s security firm are from the army.
This is a very worrying development and the President must intervene to stop it. Sadly, the government that cheated elections with deliberate false promises of good governance has turned the country into a lawless republic. Former defence secretary, at least four former navy commanders, the former army commander, the former air force commander, the former chief of defence staff and a host of intelligence officers have been either remanded or harassed by various politicised (according to the President himself) investigative agencies. However, the same government supresses the COPE report into the central bank bond fraud – the biggest quantified act of corruption in Lankan history. Mahendrans must be investigated by the Financial Crimes Investigation Division (FCID). It seems they have escaped country.
New tax increases aim to raise an additional 1.80 billion rupees whereas recent car permits to ministers and MPs costed 1.18 billion rupees. If not for the wastage, the government would only need 0.62 billion rupees, which could have been collected without draconian taxes. The Chief Opposition Whip who unfortunately was instrumental in bringing to power this government pointed it out in parliament elaborately. He’s not the only one misled.
As a result of gross, open and shameless violation of law and order, people lose trust in the President, the Cabinet, the Parliament and the system itself. It is a very dangerous development. Strangely, ‘investigative journalism’ takes a break during these interesting times. Their timing cannot be worse. Do they all have a finger in the pie, people wonder. Surely, the Central Bank bond fraud is so astronomical, there is enough to go around and more to spare.
October 30th, 2016 at 3:33 am
” Danuna is the son in law of Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka”
– Under what Law ? He has divoced from Sf’s daughter long time ago !
October 30th, 2016 at 3:38 am
What king of security can protect Central bank when Governer is the chief thief ?
October 30th, 2016 at 4:26 am
@Gonsal
Not according to the alleged letter by the Finance Minister on September 8, 2016.
Please read it below. It says he is the son in law of Fonseka which may be factually incorrect but the influence, nepotism and favouritism are the same.
“https://lankacnews.com/%e0%b6%b8%e0%b7%94%e0%b6%af%e0%b6%bd%e0%b7%8a-%e0%b6%87%e0%b6%b8%e0%b6%ad%e0%b7%92-%e0%b6%b8%e0%b7%84-%e0%b6%b6%e0%b7%90%e0%b6%82%e0%b6%9a%e0%b7%94-%e0%b6%85%e0%b6%b0%e0%b7%92%e0%b6%b4%e0%b6%ad/”
October 30th, 2016 at 4:46 am
Dilrook,
I agree rampant nepotism never ends in Sri lanka.
Few contracts have been taken by current ministers, Ravindran Karunanayagam leading the list , Daya Gamage also reported.
Danuna was not SIL any more even when he surrendered in 2014.
Main thing is Central bank has been the Hora Guhawa for a long time now, it is the money tree for the crroks to enjoy.
October 30th, 2016 at 5:12 am
අර්ජුන් මහේන්ද්රන් රැකගැනීමේ උත්සාහයක්
….ඒකාබද්ධයේ අයයි, ශ්රී ලංකා එකේ අයයි එක එක දේවල් ප්ලාන්ට් කරනවා. සතියේ පැවැත්මට එදා වේල ටුවර්ස් දේශපාලනයක් කරන්නේ” දයා ගමගේ කීවේය.
“කොප් වාර්තාවයි, කෝප් සභාපති හඳුන්නෙත්තියි නැගිටලා ගියපු එක ගැනයි මිනිස්සු හොල්මන් වෙලා ඉන්නේ” වජිර අබේවර්ධන ඇමැතිවරයා කීවේය.
“කෝප් එක හැමදාම පවතින ආණ්ඩුව තමයි අරගෙන ගිහින් තියෙන්නේ. අපි ඒක ජේ.වී.පී. එකේ හඳුන්නෙත්තිට දුන්නා. එයා අපිට තවම විශ්වාසයි. කෝප් එකෙන් තනි වාර්තාවක් එළියට දෙන්න ඕන. එයා කෝප් එකේ සභාපති විදියට රැස්වීමෙන් නැගිටලා ගියපු එක වැරදියි” රනිල් කීවේ ඔහුට කෝප් කමිටුවෙන් නැගිට යන්නයි කීවේ කවුරුන්දැයි අසමිනි.
“අර්ජුන් ඇලෝසියස්ට හා ඔහුගේ සමාගමට නඩු දාන්න එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය තීරණය කරලා තියෙනවාද?” එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේම නියෝජ්ය ඇමැතිවරයෙක් කී කතාවක් ගැන ඇසුවේ දයා ගමගේ ඇමැතිවරයාය.
“අපේ පක්ෂය එහෙම තීන්දුවක් අරගෙන නැහැ. එයාට අපරාධ චෝදනා ගේන්න බැහැ. ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂයේ අයත් ඉන්නේ ඒ මතයේම තමයි” පී. හැරිසන් ඇමැතිවරයා කීවේ රනිල්ගේ අදහසය.
October 30th, 2016 at 10:27 am
Puppet maru (hora)sira can still be a hero and come clean. Sack pathala man traitor chief die hard catholic token
Buddhist Batalande wadakaya pol pot ponil wickramaSinhalakiller. Batalande wadakaya is on his last lap now.
Batalande wadakaya is an illegal immigrant to the PM post after all. Do it maru sira. You can do it!
Murderous traitor alugosuwa becoming increasingly unpopular and people are getting fed up with the xxx. Throw
the traitor alugosuwa into the dustbin of history. Maru sira you can do it. Do it and become a hero. I’m sure all the
Sinhalese going to forgive you for all the sins you’ve done. Do it maru sira! No sarong wetting after that.
BATALANDE WADAKAYA IS AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT TO THE PM POST! MARU (HORA)SIRA SHOULD SACK HIM
AND BE A HERO! Sri Lanka will prosper without the biggest traitor ever in the history of Sri Lanka! All Batalande
Wadakaya’s career, he has destroyed Sinhalese race, destroyed Sri Lanka and destroyed Buddhism. That’s the
only contribution from the murderous, thieving Pathala Man PM.
October 30th, 2016 at 10:27 am
Sinhala modayas who support the Buddhism-destroying, Sinhalese-murdering, Sri Lanka-destroying catholic-run
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Buddhist Sri Lanka. Enjoy! Try to understand the damage caused by the UNPatriotics if you have a brain.
Brain dead Sinhalese donkeys who support these murderous, theiving, lying thugs.
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http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2015/08/05/christianizing-of-sri-lanka-unps-betrayal-of-buddhism/
http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2016/05/27/ranil-wickremasinghes-new-unp-3/
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http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2016/09/26/ltte-terrorism-church-links-can-someone-explain-these-photos/
October 30th, 2016 at 3:16 pm
Mahendran did not “ESCAPE THE COUNTRY”…. they were ADVISED, AIDED & ABETTED to flee BEFORE ARREST, NAMING OTHERS under INTEROGATION, and being FORCED to RESTORE their LOOT.
Some of that LOOT from the Great Bank Robbery probably has already been SHARED among and SPENT by the BANK ROBBERS on things like the WINNING NATIONAL ELECTION!
The POTENTIAL IMPACT of their CONFESSIONS are just too GREAT and DAMAGING, so they HAD TO FLEE, and they FLED …. POST HASTE …. ahead of the COPE REPORT presentation in Parliament!
This is JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG ….. stay TUNED!
October 30th, 2016 at 3:19 pm
Gonsal,
Oh, OK then … ex-Son-in-Law.
Is he a dad to any of Gonseka’s grandchildren?
October 30th, 2016 at 5:14 pm
Lets put the BIGGEST padlock to the stables in the world AFTER horses have BOLTED with the loot!!
AYYO SIRISENA
AYYO SORRYSENA
AYYO SORUSENA
You are a disgrace to your name. You fooled us 6.2 million people to believe you will bring good governance. Now you have no choice.
Get rid of RUN-NIL or RUN-NIL will get rid of you.