Balasuriya before trying to wipe out the underworld must tell what happened to gold worth 1.5 million of anamalu Imtiaz underworld leader - STF officer
(Lanka-e-News -25.Oct.2014, 5.30PM) Former IGP Mahinda Balasuriya who resigned his post under a cloud following the alleged killing of an unarmed civilian Roshan Chanaka who took part in a peaceful protest ,being called back and appointed as a secretary to the Ministry of peace and order under which is the very police department , had now waxed eloquent he will take action to crush the underworld operations , based on media reports.
After reading these reports I thought I should send in this article:
I who am writing this was associated with the Police STF whose tasks were to wipe out the underworld members. It is a pertinent question why is Balasuriya seeking to eliminate the underworld as soon as he assumed office ? People being naive may think he is trying to do a great deal of good , but that is not the case. I wish to write something about Balasuriya’s supposed efforts at eradication of the ‘underworld’ based on my personal experience pertaining to his so called determinationin that direction.
In 2008, Nimal Lewke was the STF Commandant . He was an STF officer whose integrity and rectitude were unquestionable. Just after him, it was K.M.L. Sarathchandra who replaced him. Sarathchandra on the other hand was the very antithesis of Lewke and was a personification of all the evils. He received instructions from Balasuriya who was the senior DIG at that time
It was ‘Anamalu Imtiaz’ (banana Imtiaz) the underworld leader who was wielding all the powers as an underworld leader for Slave Island , Maradana , Malwatte and Applewatte . The target for us was to apprehend ‘anamalu Imtiaz’ After trailing him for some time our team was able to apprehend him at Dummalasuriya , Chilaw. As soon as he was arrested we took into custody gold worth about Rs. 1.5 million . Subsequently , on the orders we received , Imtiaz was liquidated . But the gold taken into custody disappeared under Balasuriya and Sarathchandra . Until today nobody knows what happened to that gold
If Balasuriya reads this letter , he should at least now reveal what happened to that large quantity of gold that was taken into custody along with anamalu Imtiaz. This incident is most striking when seen vis a vis the tea sweepings export of heroin peddler and underworld member Ameen. The latter who was carrying on underworld operations with ‘McDonell Fairoze’ was in the central provincial council for some time.
In 2006 , when we arrested ‘thekudu’(tea dust) Ameen in 2006 , one kilo of gold that was in his possession was taken into custody. Lewke however being an honest officer duly dealt with the gold taken into custody: he distributed its sale proceeds among those who arrested the underworld member , and those who assisted by giving the tip off.
In these circumstances when Balasuriya announced he is going to eradicate the underworld menace it only makes us laugh at him because his statement only makes us to justifiably conclude , he has need now to accumulate more gold . His announcement is therefore most ridiculous and ludicrous, for he is impliedly telling he wants more gold now going by his antecedence.
If Balasuriya before trying to crush the underworld can tell us first , (of the STF) what he did to the gold of Anamalu Imtiaz, that will be infinitely better in the interests of all.
(Surely , he cannot say he swallowed the gold with Imtiaz’s anamalu).
