{"id":48799,"date":"2015-10-18T21:16:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T03:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=48799"},"modified":"2015-10-18T13:54:38","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T20:54:38","slug":"sri-lankan-government-requests-to-seize-eight-accounts-of-former-government-members-in-dubai-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/10\/18\/sri-lankan-government-requests-to-seize-eight-accounts-of-former-government-members-in-dubai-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan government requests to seize eight accounts of former government members in Dubai bank"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chandre dharma-wardana\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Corruption too must be judged against what is the going yardstick in other parts of the world. Corruption is a natural phenomenon (like entropy) in rapidly evolving\u00a0 complex physical systems. There is no entropy production (corruption) in systems that evolve infinitely slowly, as we know from thermodynamics.<\/p>\n

In the West, the Enron scandal, the scandals involving the bail out of Fanny-May, Goldman-Sachs etc., during Obama’s bail out, or the scandals involving the blatant handing over of the Iraqi war spin-off business to Haliberton (Dick Chaney, Rusmfeld, Bush are principal shareholders), running into billions are well known.<\/p>\n

That Koffe-Anan’s son and Tony Blair also profited vastly are well known.\u00a0 Earlir, In Canada 7 minsters of the Malroney small cabinet\u00a0 had to leave because of vast corrupt side deals, and even the prime minister Malroney was caught taking money (e.g., airbus purcahse scandal) and depositing them in swiss accounts through Hans-Schreiber, a man similar to sajin Vass who also worked with the german chancellor Helmut Kohl. The subsequent Canadian governments all lost on various mega-scandales (“sponsorship” scandal etc. Bridge scandals\u00a0 in Quebec almost every bridge was found to be unsafe due to contractor fixing and millions of dollars per bridge being taken by politicians fixing contracts).<\/p>\n

In Italy every politician has to be lining the pockets of the Mafia.<\/p>\n

MR must be judged in comparison to his regional counterparts and not just the Western Politicians whose approach to corruption is very sophisticated and well-integrated with the banking system that they own.\u00a0 In India, Sonia Gandhi and her family\u2019s mega scandals are well known but the spineless nice-guy (last Indian president) kept mum over it and that was part of his job. The Telecom scandals of some of Modi’s associates are also well known. Give Modi another 6 or 7 years and his story will be exactly the same.<\/p>\n

Go to Bangladesh or Pakistan, the financial scandals and levels of corruption are an order of magnitude greater than those ever reported in the mega-gossip columns\u00a0 in SL.<\/p>\n

The Pakistani corruption has gone on ever since the end of Jinnah.<\/p>\n

Dilrook argued even in Dec 2014 that MR must be thrown out,\u00a0 and he worked hard ( presumably\u00a0 mainly journalistic) to put the Mangala-Ranil-Sirisena team (well-known to be\u00a0 western puppets) in power.<\/p>\n

So, in following the concept of eliminating the enemy completely that may people follow in their political struggles (e.g., in China when they eliminate opponents on the basis of corruption), Dilrook wants the death sentence without concerning himself of\u00a0 the social turmoil that will ensure from it in the country where the rajapaksa’s have a huge emotional following. This process of executing popular figures and army generals is a part of the “orange revolution” strategy followed by the US to create social turmoil and chaos in the country, giving them (their western capital) to move in. So Dilrook is wittingly or unwittingly an agent of the Shock-and-turmoil doctrine of the US\u00a0 neo-cons.<\/p>\n

Instead, the present govt. has paid patronage to established\u00a0 financial crooks like Paskaralingam whose activities in draining the country during Premadasa’s time are not examined by the Welliamuna-Rajitha types. The boss of transparency international has nothing to say about the Cenrtal bank bond scandal.
\nThis proposal is on the basis of Welliamuna’s still unproven allegations when his previous allegations against Air-lanka bosses ended up as empty noise. No banking system (not those in bermuda, Kayman islands, and certainly not Dubai ) will release names and amounts just because a team of lawyers asks for them, as their complete financial policy is based on secrecy and trust. For them, money and business has no moral stigma.
\nThe VVIPs mentioned by rajitha are not even indicted, leave aside being convicted. Switzerland ALLOWED the convicted<\/strong> American Mining magnate (who owned most of the Cu mines in Nigeria) to escape to Switzerland and retain\u00a0 his deposits o f\u00a0 billions there, knowing that a US court had convicted him. He returned to the USA when George Bush pardoned him (the pardon was negotiated by the king of Spain, Tony Blair and Clinton, who were all paid handsomely by the mining magnate, as reported in the Canadian Broadcast Com (CBC)\u00a0 TV\u00a0investigative report an year or so ago.<\/p>\n

So to me the story that the names and amounts were revealed purely because Welliamuna et al team of lawyers demanded it, or even the American Govt. demanded it,\u00a0 seems not credible. the claim that “every dollar transaction can be followed by the US”, is nonsense, as they couldn’t do it when the bank melt-down occurred in 2008.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the public are not interested in corruption and they have always voted criminals and crooks into power. That seems to be the case in so called ‘democracies’, including the US and UK. The safeguard built into democratic systems is that leaders should not be in power for more than one, or a maximum of two terms.<\/em> When the public ignore this, and when the a constitution is amended to allow this, the results are what is expected – corruption, nepotism and increasing concentration of power in the hands of a few, because they think they are in power for ever, and have no fear of having to account for their actions.<\/p>\n

The punishment for corruption by top officials is some public stigmatization followed by a pardon from the highest level. In “dictatorial” countries like China they have not pardoned corrupt officials but followed the method of Dilrook and imposed the death penalty, but this has been mostly done to eliminate political competitors.<\/p>\n

The first step is the FILE CHARGES in a court of LAW in Sri lanka, with the available evidence, instead of Rajitha making a press statement, and Dilrook pronouncing the punishment. I am sure many of you have seen the Gilbert and Suillvan play, The Mikado<\/em>.
\nFirst the execution\u00a0 and then the trial!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chandre dharma-wardana\u00a0 Corruption too must be judged against what is the going yardstick in other parts of the world. Corruption is a natural phenomenon (like entropy) in rapidly evolving\u00a0 complex physical systems. There is no entropy production (corruption) in systems that evolve infinitely slowly, as we know from thermodynamics. In the West, the Enron scandal, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chandre-dharmawardana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}