Basil’s houses have other owners?

May 31, 2016

The FCID has found that the ownership of many houses and other constructions made by Basil Rajapaksa during the previous regime had later been transferred to other persons. This was revealed by architect Muditha Jayakody, who had designed the plans for the buildings, during investigations into a complaint with regard to a racket to launder black money of the Rajapaksas.

Jayakody has the ownership of a palatial house located in a 16-acre coconut plantation at Malwana in Gampaha. Basil Rajapaksa has borne full cost of its construction, while his wife had laid the foundation stone, and his daughter has done the interior decorations, the architect has revealed. Its ownership had been transferred to him from the then owner Tiru Nadesan by force, Jayakody has claimed.

 

In addition to this house, Jayakody has designed a palatial house at Browns Hill in Matara, Gampaha party office owned by D.A. Rajapaksa Foundation and other buildings, and instead of paying for them, Rajapaksas had handed over to him several major government projects without calling for tenders. Among them are the designing and the construction of the Army headquarters at Pelawatte in Battaramulla and the Army College at Slave Island.

 

There have been accusations that the Rajapaksas had seized land on a mass scale during their regime and they are now being transferred to friends or sold at low prices, reports also say.