Cricket Aravinda’s Stolen Cash Belongs To Black Money Dealer BBC Journo Aravinda
October 24, 2014
Colombo Telegraph reliably learns the cash including foreign currency worth Rs. 5.1 million that was stolen from former cricketer Aravinda De Silva’s home belongs to black money dealer who is presently attached to the BBC Sinhala Service – Thisara Aravinda Rathuwithana.
Thisara Aravinda Rathuwithana
According to media reports that covered the theft, Aravinda and his wife had been out of the country when the incident took place. They had returned to find out the cash missing from the safe in his house. Aravinda has told media that the money belonged to a ‘friend’ and he held it for safekeeping but had not revealed the identity. Several other media outlets however reported the ‘friend’ is a son of a famous astrologer. “The person’s name is Thisara Aravinda Rathuwithana” a highly placed police source told Colombo Telegraph.
Colombo Telegraph made an expose on Thisara’s dealings and his black money. He is the son of President Rajapaksa‘s adviser and astrologer Piyasena Rathuwithana. Black money investor, Thisara Rathuvithana at the time he was recruited to the BBC, had no journalistic experience whatsoever. Even following the disclosure on Colombo Telegraph, BBC continued to provide him a five-day work contract without even launching a probe into the allegations.
He invested millions of his money in Lalith Kotelawala’s disgraced company Golden Key that collapsed in 2008. Meanwhile he has provided extensive media coverage to Aravinda De Silva last August without disclosing the obvious conflict of interest to the BBC authorities.
Colombo Telegraph has been unable to reach Rathuwithana for comment. According sources within the BBC Sinhala Service Rathuwithana is currently in Sri Lanka and even the BBC Colombo correspondent is unable to contact him.
Few Would Forgive Premadasa For Appointing Mossad Commission
By Rajan Hoole -October 24, 2014
Dr. Rajan Hoole
This ongoing process was given unwanted publicity by the fiasco at Maduru Oya during September. The JOSSOP was set up in late September or early October as a military arm of this process. In mid-October, Dissanayake and the Sun orchestrated scare stories of Tamil hordes and of a Tamil Eelam with a ‘human boundary’. What the Government needed badly more than expertise was money.
A very relevant point missed out by the Mossad Commission is that two days before the signing of the agreement for two Israeli experts, there was a far more important signing event. General Vernon Walters arrived in Colombo on 7th November. He had a meeting and lunch with President Jayewardene on the 8th. To the Press, he was evasive on what he had discussed. He expressed confidence that Sri Lanka can solve its own problems and that Jayewardene had all cylinders firing. Saying that he would not go anywhere near Trincomalee to avoid controversy, he added that he would visit Kandy the next day, as he was a ‘history buff’.
It subsequently became well known that Jayewardene had in fact signed an agreement allowing the Voice of America facilities in Sri Lanka – it is now tucked away unostentatiously in the Chilaw District. Jayewardene’s delicate game is indicated by the fact that the previous day (7th) he had met the Indian Prime Minister’s Special Envoy Gopalasamy Parthasarathy. This was with a view to hammering out a political solution that was being negated by the meeting with Walters.
