DRUG BARON 'WELE SUDA' PAID Rs 2.5M a month to COLOMBO MP
By Premalal Wijeratne-2015-01-21
Drug kingpin Wele Suda, who was recently arrested in Pakistan and subsequently deported to Sri Lanka, has testified to the CID that he paid
Rs 2.5 million a month to a Colombo District UPFA MP as commission.
The CID, having obtained a detention order on the suspect for three months, is currently interrogating him on the details on how the operation was carried out. Wele Suda has informed the CID that for the past two years he had sent container loads of drugs to the country with the support of senior police officers and the UPFA MP who helped him not only clear the drugs through Customs but also distribute it around Colombo and other areas.
Rs 2.5 million a month to a Colombo District UPFA MP as commission.
The CID, having obtained a detention order on the suspect for three months, is currently interrogating him on the details on how the operation was carried out. Wele Suda has informed the CID that for the past two years he had sent container loads of drugs to the country with the support of senior police officers and the UPFA MP who helped him not only clear the drugs through Customs but also distribute it around Colombo and other areas.
With information on the drug business unravelling fast, Ceylon Today learns that the politician who was at the centre of the drug ring has been trying to use his political clout to escape prosecution.
The CID is also in possession of details involving powerful figures in the country who had received money from Wele Suda and had subsequently divested it into their various other businesses.
The CID is also conducting investigations into the conduct of Wele Suda's wife to determine whether she assisted him in distributing the drugs and money in the country.
The CID is also in possession of details involving powerful figures in the country who had received money from Wele Suda and had subsequently divested it into their various other businesses.
The CID is also conducting investigations into the conduct of Wele Suda's wife to determine whether she assisted him in distributing the drugs and money in the country.
It is learnt that the suspect has escaped the country with the assistance of a senior official attached to the security forces while he had several cases of narcotics lodged against him at the High Courts.
The CID has requested assistance from Interpol and Sri Lankan Embassies and High Commissions abroad to crack down on the money trail which kept the drug business afloat. Interpol is also working on getting information on Wele Suda's accounts in foreign banks.
The CID has requested assistance from Interpol and Sri Lankan Embassies and High Commissions abroad to crack down on the money trail which kept the drug business afloat. Interpol is also working on getting information on Wele Suda's accounts in foreign banks.
A senior police officer also revealed that the suspect has also shed light on how the communication network between him in Pakistan and his various associates in Sri Lanka and around the world worked.
De Facto Chief Justice Pieris Agrees To Step Down
January 21, 2015
De Facto Chief Justice Mohan Pieris has agreed to step down from the post, Health Minister Dr. Rajitha Senaratne told journalists in Colombo a short while ago.
De facto Chief Justice Mohan Pieris
Dr. Senarathne said that de facto CJ Pieris had informed Prime MinisterRanil Wickremesinghe that he would step down from the post soon.
Mohan Pieris was appointed as CJ by the Ex-President Mahinda Rajapaksa after the illegal removal of the CJ Shirani Bandaranayake.
Serving Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake had not been removed as per proper procedure, and therefore, there was no vacancy. “Parliament had not passed an appropriate resolution – a proper address to the President seeking the removal of the Chief Justice on the basis of the findings of the Parliamentary Select Committee. What it passed was an old one which had set the impeachment process in motion.” TNA MP, lawyer M.A.Sumanthirantold media.
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