{"id":130995,"date":"2022-12-28T16:54:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T23:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=130995"},"modified":"2022-12-28T16:54:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T23:54:14","slug":"a-parallel-mafia-state-mafia-judiciary-mafia-media-mafia-economists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/12\/28\/a-parallel-mafia-state-mafia-judiciary-mafia-media-mafia-economists\/","title":{"rendered":"A Parallel Mafia State, Mafia Judiciary, Mafia Media & Mafia\u00a0Economists"},"content":{"rendered":"

e-Con e-News<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

e-Con e-News  11-17 December 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bloody garrotting of the head of one of several \u2018leading\u2019 companies (financial, insurance, real-estate) on Thursday, found amidst the gothic crypts of Borella\u2019s Kanatte<\/strong> \u2013 the country\u2019s most expensive real-estate \u2013 will be just as quickly entombed and diverted by our mafia media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  No questions are being asked yet as to why \u2018a member of one of the leading business families in the country\u2019 would lend Rs1.4 billion to a \u2018cricket commentator\u2019 & \u2018former sports presenter\u2019, to \u2018invest in a well-known company\u2019 in Sri Lanka. Is cricket the real English laundry? The story also reveals that the municipal cemetery\u2019s security has been outsourced to a private company. It\u2019s left to the rumor mills to wonder about corporate investment in money laundering and drug dealing. Such are not the preserve of those given rustic nicknames like Makandure Madush, etc, who regularly mete out and meet bloodier ends, and evoke sprawling repeated headlines. Could we now know who they really work for? Not everyone can afford life insurance or assurance. Nor will Kolomba Hatha, Flower Road, or Palmyrah Avenue, modify otherwise distinguished Trinitian or Thomian Christian names. However, fertilizer-importer Maharaja\u2019s NewsFirst<\/em>, a vehement critic of the present President, suggests Dinesh Schaffter was a powerful witness to the Presidential Commission of Inquiry<\/strong> investigating the infamous \u2018Treasury Bond Scam\u2019<\/strong>. Wheels within wheels. Footnotes within footnotes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Some of the country\u2019s biggest thieves, their fathers, mothers, siblings & faithful servants, 57 of them, calling themselves \u2018concerned citizens\u2019, wrote a very interesting letter on (remember this date) 7 March 2022<\/strong>, to Sri Lanka\u2019s Monetary Board<\/strong>, which governs the Central Bank<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  These letter-writers lamented the \u2018severe\u2019 shortage of foreign exchange and consequent fuel, food & pharmaceutical shortages. Their sorrow was on behalf of \u2018small & medium-sized businesses who are fighting existential challenges\u2019. They demanded the government submit to the US-controlled IMF and its bitter medicines of devaluation,<\/strong> and hike fuel & electricity prices (which would surely sink their beloved cutlis-making SMEs!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  These \u2018concerned citizens\u2019 included present CB governor Nandalal Weerasinghe<\/strong> & former CB governor Indrajit Coomaraswamy<\/strong>, both whom worked under and with disgraced CB governor & bond-scammer Arjuna Mahendran<\/strong>. Both Weerasinghe & Coomaraswamy were involved in passing the Foreign Exchange Act No 12<\/strong> in 2017. This FE Act moved banker Rajendra Theagarajah<\/strong>, Ceylon Chamber of Commerce<\/strong> chair, to thrill: \u2018The concept of foreign-exchange control has now disappeared from our dialogue.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  So, why then lament the \u2018severe shortage\u2019 of Dollars 5 years later? Yet Theagarajah is also a signatory of the March 7 letter. The other signatories include the regularly celebrated economic experts in the daily (should we say, unrelenting) media. They include the economists Nimal & Amal Sanderatne<\/strong> (Father & Sons Ltd), WAW Wijewardena<\/strong>, Srimal Abeyratne<\/strong>, Shantha Devarajan<\/strong>, etc. They include bankers, fake industrialists (Thulhiriya-thief MAS<\/strong>\u2019 Sharad Amalean<\/strong>, Ceylon Tobacco<\/strong>\u2019s Suresh Shah<\/strong>, later appointed chair of the SoEs Restructuring Agency<\/strong> in Sept 2022), supposed scholars (we won\u2019t bother naming these imposters), NGO royalty (Sarvodaya<\/strong>\u2019s nepotist Ariyaratne<\/strong> Jr), BASL\u2019s Geoff Alagaratnam<\/strong> & PC Kanag Isvaran<\/strong>, US-funded Verite\u2019s de Mels, US-funded Advocata<\/strong> chair Murtaza Jafferjee<\/strong> (in May appointed by then-PM & Minister of Finance Ranil Wickremasinghe to form an \u2018Economic Stabilisation Dialogue\u2019 <\/strong>between the Ministry of Finance & \u2018independent\u2019 economists) and his Koralawella frontman Dhana Fernando.<\/strong> Murtaza\u2019s fellow Borah merchants, Abbas & Hussein Esufally<\/strong>, Advertisers (Neela Marrikar<\/strong>, chair of Japan\u2019s Dentsu Grant<\/strong>, daughter of Reggie Candappa<\/strong>) etc. It truly is an assemblage of the media-loved economic lightweights. Yet the Assembly of God<\/strong>\u2019s twins, aka Footnote Cliquer Harsha & Eran & 3rd<\/sup>-ball Kabir \u2013 always so horrified and always headlined by the media \u2013 did not sign the letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 On March 31<\/strong>, 3 weeks after these eminents wrote the Monetary Board, \u2018demonstrators\u2019 attacked the residence of then President Gotabaya Rajapakse<\/strong>, sparking the so-called Aragalaya<\/strong>. On that very day, US Envoy Julie Chung <\/strong>visited the President\u2019s Mirihana residence, got down on her knees, and raised her hands. She said she was a Roman Catholic<\/strong> and prayed to her god, via Rome and Washington, to invoke relief for the President. She \u2018apologized\u2019 for what had happened that day. When the President decided to remove the protestors, envoy Chung prevented it, claiming it would stall the IMF loan. The President was visibly moved (we\u2019re told) by her devotion. Chung then delivered the US ultimatums for the President to implement (see ee Sovereignty<\/em><\/strong>, US envoy controlled both Aragalaya, GR)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0 Meanwhile, as\u00a0Wikipedia\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0doctored\u00a0Aragalaya (2022 Sri Lanka Protests)<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0article records: \u2018Twitter hashtags including #GoHomeGota and #GoGotaGo\u2019 were soon force-multiplied into \u2018trending\u2019 by such imperialist redoubts as the \u2018USA, Singapore, and Germany\u2019.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On April 3, the\u00a0cabinet<\/strong>\u00a0resigned. Letter-writer Weerasinghe replaced CB Governor\u00a0Ajith N Cabraal<\/strong>\u00a0on April 7. On May 9, ruling party MPs offices & residences were attacked & burned, across the country. On May 18, the new CB Governor announced independent Sri Lanka\u2019s\u00a0first financial default<\/strong>. On July 9, the President\u2019s palace was allowed to be attacked & ransacked\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Parallel Mafia State, Mafia Judiciary, Mafia Media & Mafia Economists<\/a><\/blockquote>