State secret no. 1 - President has taken a 50% commission from the Norochcholai project
- Monday, 29 July 2013
The Government Servants Against Corruption organization says with great responsibility that President Mahinda Rajapaksa had taken a 50% commission from the Chinese company that was assigned the project to construct the Norochcholai coal power plant.
Several senior government officials and some senior state officials who are now in retirement have formed a group that would release details corruption among the high ranking government officials. The reports are to be released under the name “state secrets” (rajya rahas). In the first paper released by the group on Norochcholai states details about a Rs. 15,000 million (Rs. 1.5 billion) fraud committed by the President in the construction of the Norochcholai coal power plant.
