Bribery & Corruption Commission mucks up its affairs
Nov 03, 2015
Reports reaching us from the Bribery & Corruption Commission confirm that the effort of recovering the USD 500 million owned by the Rajapaksa’s deposited in the Mashreq Bank would become a failure attempt.
When the news was revealed the director general of the Bribery & Corruption lawyer Dilrukshi Wicramasinghe without sorting diplomatic help has travelled to Dubai and taken steps to seize the money through a private legal institute. The United Arab Emirates government has immediately rejected the request and sent a warning message to Sri
Lanka.
Lanka.
The United Arab Emirates government has diplomatically rebuked the Sri Lankan government and said that the country cannot give such information’s about its deposits in its banks. Further they have said if they commit such it would be a bad precedence and the depositors
and investors would lose hopes in their country and there is a great danger that its deposits and investments would be pulled out from their country and taken to other countries.
and investors would lose hopes in their country and there is a great danger that its deposits and investments would be pulled out from their country and taken to other countries.
In this situation, in order to reduce the loss, foreign minister Mangala Samaraweera and the senior lawyer J.C. Weliamuna has travelled to the United Arab Emirates and held high level diplomatic discussions. However UAE diplomats has highly criticized the attitude
of the director general of the Bribery & Corruption and said if the request would have made through a diplomatic level without a private law company they would given some minimal information but due to the present situation they cannot reveal any information’s.
of the director general of the Bribery & Corruption and said if the request would have made through a diplomatic level without a private law company they would given some minimal information but due to the present situation they cannot reveal any information’s.
Confirmed sources said this is also another joint adventure of the uncle and his son in law. When uncle was serving in a high chair in the bank the son in law has taken this money to that bank. Reports confirm that the uncle and the son in law have shared USD 50 million as a commission for this deal.
