Major swindling of public money through ‘Visal Dambulla?’

- Dec 08, 2016

Many millions of rupees of public money had reportedly been swindled in the construction of ‘Visal Dambulla’ drinking water supply project during the previous regime.

Started in 2012 on an Indian credit line, it aimed to divert waters from Dambulla to Kantale to give 40,000 water supply connections to 174,000 beneficiaries. The project objective was said to be water supply, but pipelines had so far been laid on six different occasions without a drop of water being supplied to date, according to reports reaching Lanka News Web.

The main contractor, an Indian company, had gone back taking with it the commission money, leaving the local agent Jaffergy Brothers in difficulties. There is suspicion that a minister of the previous regime, who is already facing accusations of defrauding the money collected as fines, is behind this swindling. LNW will bring you a detailed exposure soon.