Mafia money given to Asanga to buy The Leader

Friday, 28 September 2012 

Asanga Seneviratne has received monies from the Colombo stock market mafia to purchase The Sunday Leader Company apart from the Rs. 100 million given as a bank loan by the President, reliable sources said.

Seneviratne after losing a large amount of money in the stock market had approached the President’s confidential financial advisor, parliamentarian Sajin Vass Gunawardena to raise the balance money to buy the newspaper. He in turn had approached the leaders of the stock market mafia, Nimal Perera and Dilith Jayaweera to raise Rs. 190 million.

Seneviratne through Gunawardens has assured the stock market mafia that the newspapers published by Leader Publications would not rights any reports on the corruption and irregularities of stock market transactions in future.