Egregious allegation against the Mobitel CEO

Oct 04, 2015

A comprehensive investigation have been started against the chief executive officer of the Sri Lanka Mobitel Ranjith Rubasinghe against illegally using Mobitel resources and finances for the political campaigns of the former President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

The investigation team has already collected significant evidences of financial discrepancies of Ranjith Rubasinghe and how the latter used his official powers and deployed the Mobitel for political campaigns.

 

Illegally providing two advertisement trucks belong to the Mobitel to election campaign and spending a sum of Rs. 2.5 million belong to the Mobitel to the alliance contestant, surreptitiously deploying Mobitel workers in a special unit created in Narahenpita to rig the election results with the help of the TRC, Printing a calendar by the theme “Pubudamu Hetak” by spending 15 million belong to the Mobitel, offering Mobitel advertisement boards to the election campaign of the Rajapaksa, Offering the advertising and printing works to “Kumar Stickers” without calling for tenders, offering advertisements to the CSN TV channel without accepted norms, Giving abnormal financial sponsorships to Carlton pre-school and rugby tournaments, possessing a USD 132 million bid when the Hutch Telecom was offered to sell for USD 70 million and trying to manipulating USD 60 million are some of the large illegal financial irregularities of the latter.

 

Although the investigations against Ranjith Rubasinghe was swept under the carpet during the Rajapaksa tenure and during the 100 days program due to political affiliations and financial donations confirmed reports say there are credible evidences and the law would be enforced duly this time.