CID investigates mud website

Sunday, 31 May 2015

The CID has launched a special investigation into a website that publishes articles defamatory of president Maithripala Sirisena and his friends.

The investigation follows a complaint lodged by Thushitha Halloluwa, convener of the organization to protect the SLFP.
He is presently a coordinating secretary to the foreign affairs minister and the chairman of the Colombo Commercial Fertilizer Company Ltd.

Also a director at Mobitel, he recently lodged a complaint with the CID and the IGP against continuing mud throwing at him and the president.

The accused website has a name similar to our website http://lankanewsweb.net/, and this has placed us into numerous difficulties too. About that, we complained to media ministry secretary Karu Paranawithana and justice minister Wijedasa Rajapaksa, but no positive response has been received yet.

False allegation

A certain website reported that the website that was supporting Maithri and the mud throwing website with a similar name are both run by the same person and the aim is to gain financial profits from both sides, the CID has found out.

When contacted, Halloluwa told LNW that the CID was yet to make such a revelation regarding his complaint.

We wish to inform our viewers that we will not fall to the level of calling for a blocking or banning of the website with a name similar to ours and the website in London.

Our lawyers are already at work regarding this under the intellectual property act and the outcome of their work will be seen in the near future.

We also ask other websites not to fall prey to attempts by the enemies to set us against each other and to clearly identify the conspiracy. This conspiracy became clear after a pro-Rajapaksa newspaper removed, within an hour, an article posted on its online edition regarding this matter.