Deputy Minister Faizer’s helicopter ride to Negombo court!

 Friday, 11 October 2013 

Deputy Minister of Investment Promotion Faizer Mustafa, also a lawyer, had asked one of his clients to provide him with a helicopter to go to Negombo to attend a hearing at the district court there. The client had paid Rs. 175,000 to Deccan Airlines for the return journey of the Deputy Minister.

The client in question is Vasu, the owner of ‘Devi Jewellers’, from whom Deputy Minister Faizer Mustafa has charged Rs. 10 million to appear for the case. The Deputy Minister has also taken the ‘Devi Jewellers’ owner to the Defence Secretary, who has resolved threats to him from extortionists. Later, Vasu has told his friends, “If I paid to extortionists, I would have paid only once. But, Faizer has to be paid every day.”

At the request of the President, the Defence Secretary has given STF security to Investment Promotion Deputy Minister Faizer Mustafa, who charges Rs. 150,000 separately from his clients, saying his bodyguards should be paid if they accompany him to courts. The owner of ‘Thambi Gems’, who is the brother-in-law of Rumy Hajjiyar of Akurana, Kandy, a personal friend of the Deputy Minister, had paid this additional Rs. 150,000, in order for Faizer Mustafa to represent him at a hearing in the Ratnapura district court.

The Deputy Minister of Investment Promotion also deals with all foreign investors and swindles them at will, since his Minister, Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena, is poor in English language use. Faizer Mustafa left on the 9th on a tour of Switzerland.