{"id":118919,"date":"2021-10-06T14:31:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T21:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=118919"},"modified":"2021-10-06T14:34:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T21:34:04","slug":"pandora-papers-thirukumar-nadesan-writes-to-president-seeking-independent-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/10\/06\/pandora-papers-thirukumar-nadesan-writes-to-president-seeking-independent-inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandora Papers: Thirukumar Nadesan writes to President seeking independent inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Thirukumar Nadesan, the husband of former Minister Nirupama Rajapaksa, has requested President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to conduct an independent investigation into Pandora Papers \u2013 a series of financial documents that exposed the secret offshore wealth and dealings of hundreds of world leaders, politicians and billionaires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0db4\u0dd0\u0db1\u0dca\u0da9\u0ddd\u0dbb\u0dcf \u0db4\u0dad\u0dca\u200d\u0dbb\u0dd2\u0d9a\u0dcf\u0dc0\u0dbd \u0db8\u0dd9\u0dbb\u0da7\u0da7 \u0d85\u0daf\u0dcf\u0dc5 \u0d9a\u0dbb\u0dd4\u0dab\u0dd4 \u0d9c\u0dd0\u0db1 \u0db4\u0dbb\u0dd3\u0d9a\u0dca\u0dc2\u0dab\u0dba\u0d9a\u0dca...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4HbDbVACN-k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Sri Lanka Minister Nirupama Rajapaksa\u2019s name was also mentioned in the files from offshore companies, dubbed the Pandora Papers, released on October 03.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is one of the biggest leaks of financial documents that shed light on the secret wealth and dealings of world leaders, politicians and billionaires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the leaked documents, Nirupama Rajapaksa and her husband Thirukumaran Nadesan are the actual economic beneficiaries of an offshore company, managed by a Singapore trust firm, used to purchase luxury residences in London and Sydney, Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The anonymous real estate safe is still active in 2019 when the available documents stop, it stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his letter to the President, Nadesan insisted that he and his wife are totally innocent and are guilty of no wrongdoings.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is commonly believed that all persons whose names were divulged in some way guilty of wrongdoing, he said further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several world leaders inclusive of His Excellency Imran Khan publicly announced that they will investigate anyone whose names appear in the Pandora Papers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nadesan went on to request the President to appoint an independent investigator \u2013 preferably a retired appellate court judge \u2013 to investigate the matter without delay, so that my name and that of my wife would be cleared.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.postimg.cc\/W3gkw8yR\/Thirukumaran-Nadesan-writes-to-President-seeking-independent-inquiry-on-Pandora-Papers.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Thirukumar Nadesan, the husband of former Minister Nirupama Rajapaksa, has requested President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to conduct an independent investigation into Pandora Papers \u2013 a series of financial documents that exposed the secret offshore wealth and dealings of hundreds of world leaders, politicians and billionaires. 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