Mahinda who pillaged from wreaths has also defaulted florists

Dec 05, 2015

President Maithripala Sirisena said that the former president has pillaged public money in the name of sending wreaths. It was revealed that the President Secretariat has sent wreaths to funeral houses and issued bills from florists amounting to millions. Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe told in the parliament that the former president in order to express his condolence has spent Rs. 15 million.

These wreaths have been taken from Jayarathna florists Colombo and Rayland florists in station road Matara. Owner of Rayland florists say that his company has to get nine lacks from the presidents secretariat for the wreaths he has sold. He said he has informed the presidents secretariat many times but so far they have not paid the bills.

 

However the money the former president spent to send wreaths for deceased people is exceeding millions more than the official statistics