Media personnel who received perks, salary packets from Mahinda revealed

Aug 03, 2016

The officials of the Prime Minister’s office have revealed how some media personnel had received perks, positions and money from various government institutions during the tenure of the previous regime. The names of these media personnel and the media institutions would be furnished to the general public in due course, the officials of the media unit of the Prime Minister had quipped.

They have even misinterpreted the activities of the government projects by publishing fake information to discredit the government. These are the groups of media personnel who had obtained benefit by way of various perks, positions and money obtained during the tenure of the Rajapaksa  government. This group of media personnel have misled the general public.

In this context this group of media personnel have behaved among the general public as ‘clean’ who would never be classified as betrayers. It is reported that there are some reputed media personnel in this group.

This group of media personnel and some media institutions have received contracts of the government, tenders, vehicles and drawn salaries and other privileges from government institutions. In addition under the patronage of the Rajapaksa’s a few of these media personnel have obtained bank facilities amounting to millions of rupees. In these bank transactions it has been revealed that there had been several illegal transactions.

In addition even some of them have benefited by receiving state patronage for the wedding ceremonies.

It is reported via reliable sources that legal action would be initiated against these media personnel and media institutions.