JVP blasts Govt. over delay in action against corruption
Saturday, 21 February 2015 02:52
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The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) yesterday expressed their displeasure over the passive manner in which the Government was handling the increasing number of bribery and corruption cases and alleged that an invisible force was behind this delay.
JVP MP Vijitha Herath told journalists that from the 100-day program now more than 40 days had passed but so far the authorities had failed to take action in any major case.
“The Government has failed to take any action against those accused. And it is only after 40 days that they have even established a committee to look into these charges. This is not what the people expected from this Government. No matter how many inquires we make about this subject for some reason the Government is not conducting these investigations properly. So we would like to know what the reason is and who is behind this delay? We can’t help but suspect that perhaps an invisible external force is behind this delay,” he said.
Speaking further, Herath questioned why the authorities have failed to take any action against the LTTE’s former arms dealer Kumaran Pathmanathan, alias KP, against whom there have been charges for years without any investigations taking place while also criticising the decision of the authorities to allow the former President’s son Lieutenant Yoshitha Rajapaksa to leave the country when there was an ongoing investigation against him.
Court nod for CID to probe alleged money
laundering by bigwigs
The Colombo Chief Magistrate Gihan Pilapitiya yesterday gave permission to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to get information from 81 public and private sector banks and other financial institutions to investigate into the corruption allegations of former Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage and former Monitoring MP for the Ministry of External Affairs Sajin Vass Gunawardena, former Ports Authority Chairman Priyath Bandu Wickrema and six other close relations of theirs. The CID had said that investigations are taking place under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act concerning these people and that the CID apart from the banks would need to gather information from the Inland Revenue Department, and officers of the Registrar of Land as well. Relevant directives to 81 institutions were issued yesterday.
