 (Lanka-e-News-03.Jan.2013,
3.55AM The SL Director General of Customs , Dr.
Neville Gunawardena had been suddenly removed from his post on 2nd Dec. and
transferred to the Finance Ministry where he is given a post that is sans
important tasks because he had been an obstacle to the illicit arrack businesses
of the Rajapakse family, according to reports reaching Lanka e news.
 It
is a cruel irony that though the Rajapakses are ostensibly promoting and
propagating ‘Mathata thitha’ program to show to the country and the world that
they are against liquor consumption , and are twice a month paying homage to Sri
Maha Bodhi and hitting their empty heads there as a ritual , they in fact are
the leading illicit arrack business magnates in the country.
It
is Lakshman Vasantha Perera from Matale who is running this business on behalf
of the Rajapakses. There is a hidden director in the Lakshman Vasantha’s Co. The
name as registered is Leksika Peiris. Her present name is Leksika Rajapakse. She
is none other than the daughter in law of Speaker Chamal Rajapakse – the wife of
Uva province chief Minister Shavindra. It is after putting her name in front as
a shield that the Rajapkse family is conducting this business.
Lanka
e news had already highlighted this in a report on October 30th under the
caption ‘ MP sells formalin – urea as arrack- MaRa’s commission Rs. 300 million
monthly’
It
was exposed by us in that article , this adulterated arrack which is formalin
and urea is being turned out at a factory situated in Dompe , Palugama area. We
revealed that this factory is avoiding the payment of legal taxes amounting to
Rs. 800 million , whereas it is making an illegal payment of Rs. 300 million to
the Rajapakses as extortion money. This payment has to be delivered compulsorily
monthly to Temple Trees , and these are made entirely by cash.
In
addition , to manufacture this arrack , they also import the necessary spirits.
Mind you , in SL at the moment the highest quantity of spirits are got down for
this adulterated arrack illicit business by the Rajapakses. When formalin worth
Rs. 2000 million was imported as spirit , and was seized by the Customs Director
General , since the Customs is under the purview of the Finance Ministry that
belongs to Rajapakse who is also running this illicit arrack factory putting
Leksika in front , on the payment of a penalty of Rs. 3 million , the Customs
director General was obliged to release the goods to Lakshman Perera himself.
Following this illicit import , Rajapakse turned bitter against the Director
General of Customs .
Meanwhile
, the Rajapakse Govt. issued duty free non transferable import permits for
vehicles for Govt. servants. As the LB Finance Co. and LOLC leasing Companies
granted leases illegally on these vehicles so got down , the Customs sealed the
files of these Companies , and began investigating them. Rajapakse whose concern
was for illicit arrack business and the two illegal leasing business magnates
come what may, within a night changed the laws and converted the non
transferable into transferable permits. On this issue Mahinda Rajapkse fell foul
with the Customs Director General who was performing his duties
duly.
LB
Finance Sumith Adhihetty is a close sidekick of MaRa. He employed notorious
China Town Mustaq and sneaked on Dr. Neville Gunawardena to MaRa. The latter who
is as unscrupulous and sordid as his sidekick fell into his trap . As a result
LB chief who is MaRa’s sidekick got what he wanted. China
town Mushtaq is an individual who supplies all requirements of the Rajapakses
.The latter too does not wait without heeding what Mushtaq tells. In the
circumstances , MaRa , had summoned the Customs Director General and berated him
. But what provoked MaRa to go that far as to remove Dr. Neville Gunawardena
from the post was based on a different ground .
That
is , creating a rival unwittingly for MaRa’s illicit arrack business . That
rival is no less an individual than the Trade Minister Johnston Fernando . The
latter following in the footsteps of his ‘Guru’ had imported a quantity of
illicit spirits , and after clearing through the Customs had via his tavern
embarked on the ‘Gura’s (hora) illegal business .His
Gura Rajapakse was infuriated because he alleges that the Customs chief had
helped his rival Golaya ( Johniya) , Johnston to surmount the Customs barriers.
Rajapakse Gura therefore decided that the Customs chief should be expelled as he
had hit him below the belt in his adulterated illicit arrack business by
assisting his underling Johniya ( Johnston Fernando) .
But
what is most irksome and disgusting about Rajapakse’s jungle laws is, its
implementation with gay abandon which are causing untold hardships and miseries
to all including the judiciary .As in others so in this case , Rajapakse
punished the Director General of Customs who acted duly and lawfully while not
punishing the real culprit , his Minister Johniya better known as
‘Donkeya’ |
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