China allegedly funding MR’s failed Presidential bid COc wants CID/FCID probe

JUN 30 2018

 

The Citizens Organizations Collective made a public appeal to President Maithripala 

Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to direct the Criminal Investigation Department and the Financial Crimes Investigation Division (FCID) to urgently investigate a recent allegation that surfaced, that China had provided funding to Parliamentarian Mahinda Rajapaksa’s failed 2015 Presidential bid campaign.  

 

Convener of the Collective, Saman Ratnapriya, citing references from a recent New York Times article, on the issue, including incidents of cheques being sent to the...... Temple Trees and the involvement of a bank with which the China Merchant Port Holdings Company Limited kept an account, and a monk also allegedly receiving money, told Ceylon Today that an inquiry should be conducted into whether money was thus taken and if so what was done with the it.  

 

The FCID should investigate the money laundering aspect, he said. Deputy Minister Ranjan Ramanayake has already lodged a complaint in this connection.

 

“The monies must be taken back from Rajapaksa if it was taken. Former Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Ajith Nivard Cabraal and MP Namal Rajapaksa are giving frivolous answers without replying to the allegations,” he claimed.