{"id":69088,"date":"2017-08-19T16:43:47","date_gmt":"2017-08-19T23:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=69088"},"modified":"2017-08-19T16:43:47","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T23:43:47","slug":"a-luxury-residence-to-ravi-karunanayake-as-a-bribe-for-the-batticaloa-arrack-factory-and-not-as-a-bribe-for-treasury-bonds-wimal-weerawansa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/08\/19\/a-luxury-residence-to-ravi-karunanayake-as-a-bribe-for-the-batticaloa-arrack-factory-and-not-as-a-bribe-for-treasury-bonds-wimal-weerawansa\/","title":{"rendered":"A luxury residence to Ravi Karunanayake as a bribe for the Batticaloa Arrack Factory and not as a bribe for Treasury Bonds. \u2013 Wimal Weerawansa"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Translated by : A.A.M.NIZAM \u2013 MATARA)<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Nothing happens in this country on a planned basis except robberies.\u00a0 It is the duty and responsibility of everyone who love and are dear to this country to prevent this country becoming a prey to the government of thieves.\u00a0 This was stated by the leader of the National Freedom Front Parliamentarian Mr. Wimal Weerawansa delivering his address at the people\u2019s seminar held at the auditorium of the \u2018Sambuddha Jayanthi Mandiraya\u2019 in Colombo under the caption On whose shoulders is the Treasury Bond Scam?\u201d.(Bedumkare Kaage Kare?)<\/p>\n

Speaking further he said that we are holding this seminar at a time the government by making Ravi Karunanayake as the sole accused of the Treasury Bonds Scam, and making him agreeable to temporarily resign from the Minister post and thereby attempting to conceal the gravity of this theft and in order to defeat and reverse this attempt.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the first time in the history of this country the Central Bank was brought under the subjects assigned to the Prime Minister.after 8th<\/sup> January 2015.\u00a0 Prior to that, the Central Bank was under the Ministry of Finance.\u00a0 It was under the Minister of Finance despite whoever who became the Prime Minister. The Governor of the Central Bank should be appointed by the President on the recommendation of the Minister of Finance.\u00a0 If that is so, why the Prime Minister got the Central Bank under his purview? Was it not done under a pre-planned mechanism?<\/p>\n

Just look at how the Prime Minister\u2019s crooked and cunning brain has worked?\u00a0 The person he got appointed was a foreigner. He is a Singaporean national who was an intimate friend of the Prime Minister.\u00a0 Under whose signature this Governor of the Central Bank has been appointed.\u00a0 Was it under the signature of the Prime Minister? No. Was it under the rcommendation of the Prime Minister? No \u2013 in respect of that also. He has been appointed under the signature of the President on the recommendation of the then Minister of Finance Mr. Ravi Karunanayake.<\/p>\n

The Presidential Commission that investigates about the Treasury Bonds Scam has found the tail end of this theft.\u00a0 It is the Prime Minister\u2019s intimate friend, the former Governor of the Central Bank who stays at the end is Mr. Arjun Mahendran..\u00a0 Then who appointed this Arjun Mahendran as the Governor of the Central Bank.\u00a0 That was the President who has appointed him.\u00a0 Then what about the Prime Minister?\u00a0 He is a baby.\u00a0 He does not know anything.\u00a0 (Laughter from the audience)<\/p>\n

Btillions and Trillions were exchanged then\u2026<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This shows that the Central Bank was taken under the Prime Minister as a pre-planned exercise. After that the intimte friend who was in Singapore was brought down for the post of the Governor.\u00a0 You remember that all the Ministers who crossed over from the previous government went on pilgrimage to Singapore prior to January 8th<\/sup>\u00a0\u00a0 They went there and held discussions at the residences of Arjun Mahendran.\u00a0 It was there that billions and trillions changed hands. My colleagues who spoke earlier clearly explained on how the Treasury Bonds thefts were carried out and its process.\u00a0 Therefore I am not going to remind about it again.<\/p>\n

The Canard spread by Pacha Ranawaka<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Normally a government get an allegation saying that it robbed while making expenditures.\u00a0 These people made allegations against the previous government saying that they are building express ways and getting commissions from that work.\u00a0 There were allegations like that.\u00a0 Just see that Pacha Ranawaka said recently that under the previous government there were excessive developments, more than what were needed and there were opinions built up among the people that there were large scale misappropriations through these developments. He attempts to show that such opinions got created voluntarily.\u00a0 Or the people have created such opinions.\u00a0 Isn\u2019t it that this opinion was spread by Pacha Ranawaka through his book titled \u2018Mega Deals\u2019.\u00a0 This gang of scounderals who made allegations against the previous government appearing as faultless pure people now robbed not only from the expenditure of the government but from the income of thee country as well.\u00a0 Obtaining loans through Treasury Bonds is an avenue of earning income for the country.\u00a0 This is a theft carried out during obtaining State loans.\u00a0 If theft of this nature was done when obtaining loans what type of colossal thefts they would carried out when development work is carried out from those loaned funds?<\/p>\n

The biggest financial crime committed in Sri Lanka<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

As per the Dentist Rajitha Senaratne the question about Mr. Ravindra Sandrais Karunanayake is a question of an \u2018onion peel\u2019.\u00a0 If we proceed on enquiring as to how Rajitha Senaratnes acquired 07 \u2013 08 ships it would become a question of \u2018two or three onion peels.\u00a0 If the State Minister for Finance Mr. Lakshman Yapa Abeywardene says that the loss incurred by the country from this Bonds Scam was more than One Trillion (1000 Billion) rupees what else we need to say.\u00a0 Isn\u2019t it the largest ever financial crime committed in the history of Sri Lanka? Dr. Nalaka Godahewa clearly explained earlier the impact created by this great robbery.\u00a0 As a country today we have to obtain loans on high interest rates.\u00a0 The fiscal sector of the country has crashed.\u00a0 The economy has dwindled.\u00a0 The trust on the state fiscal activities has been lost.\u00a0 In addition to the aforesaid damage of a trillion rupees other damages have been caused to the country because of this large scale financial crime.<\/p>\n

Sending the gang of robbers to the Commission without sending them to Courts!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Although some people thought that it was the emergence of a yahapalanaa that took place on 8th<\/sup> Januart 2015 what actually happened on that day was the emergence of a gang of robbers.\u00a0 This government came to power preaching anti-corruption wild sermons.\u00a0 All thefts that had taken place have been revealed by 2 COPE reports and from the report of the Auditor General. When one COPE report was to be released the President dissolved the Parliament.\u00a0\u00a0 As it was not possible to remain silent when another COPE report was published the President has appointed a Commission and it is conducting investigayions. As per details given in the COPE report and the report of the Auditor General this case should have now been heard in the Courts.\u00a0 It is to prevent that this gang of robbers has now been sent to the Commission.\u00a0 This Commission is not a place where punishments will be meted out to these thieves.\u00a0 It is only a \u2018talk shop\u2019. Despite that this Commission has still not summoned persons like Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe, Minister Maalik Samarawickrema and the people of that ilk.\u00a0 Similarly none of the UNP Ministers who wemt to the Finance Milistry to make necessary arrangements before this infamous transaction took place have noy been summoned by the Commission yet. All these blue robbers have not yet been summoned to the Commission yet.<\/p>\n

Batticaloa Arrack Factory and Ravi<\/strong><\/p>\n

What got fired at Ravi Karunanayake in the midst was a misfiring.\u00a0 Here it was shot at the bush but it got hit at the hare.\u00a0 The deal by which a residence was given to Ravi Karunanayake was a separate deal.\u00a0 It was given by Arjun Aloysius as a gratification for giving concessions through the Budget to Arjun Aloysius\u2019 Arrack Factory in Batticaloa.\u00a0 It is Aloysiuses who run Arrack Companies in Sri Lanka.\u00a0 If someone takes a \u2018Shot\u2019 Aloysiuses get a cut from it.\u00a0 (Laughter from the audience).<\/p>\n

Here we have to think about something.\u00a0 If the gratification provided for establishing the Arrack Factory in Batticaloa was an \u2018onion peel\u2019\u00a0 as per Rajitha Senaratne, how many \u2018onion peels\u2019 would have got those who planned the Bonds scam and by the \u2018footnote gang\u2019?<\/p>\n

This gang of thieves who plunges this country to the abyss day by day is similar to a group of people who have got caught in a rain of Murugasan.\u00a0 If the Joint Opposition did not bring forth a No Confidence Motion it would not have become necessary for Ravi Karunanayake to resign.\u00a0 When we brought the No Confidence Motion a group of UNP MPs said that they cannot go against the No Confidence Motion.\u00a0 Similarly a group of Ministers were also ready to vote in favour of the No Confidence Motion. Because of all this Ravi Karunanayake was forced to rsign.\u00a0 If it was not done so it is the Ravi Karunanayake who lost the Confidence of Members would have been compelled to resign. (niz)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Translated by : A.A.M.NIZAM \u2013 MATARA) Nothing happens in this country on a planned basis except robberies.\u00a0 It is the duty and responsibility of everyone who love and are dear to this country to prevent this country becoming a prey to the government of thieves.\u00a0 This was stated by the leader of the National Freedom […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aamnizam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69088","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=69088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}