Rajapakse ‘spy’ to leave SL secretly with CHOGM delegates after summit
(Lanka-e-News-08.Nov.2013, 11.00PM) The Medamulana Rajapakse regime had prepared a novel method to make sure that after the Commonwealth heads of government summit meeting , when the special delegates are leaving , along with them on the sly to send one of its acolytes to a European country , according to reports reaching Lanka e news inside information division.
It is planned that this special acolyte who is saddled with a number of responsibilities during the summit , leaves for the European country as soon as the summit is over . This specially picked individual will be arriving in the European country on the 19 th though he has no invitation from that country. His tour is organized in such a way that it is a secret to both Sri Lanka and the foreign country.
As this special individual has had no dealings with that European country , this tour is extraordinarily important and secretive,.
Like the foreign information services , Lanka e news too is scrupulously watching and trailing this mysterious individual. Lanka e news hopes to reveal all details of this individual’s secretive plans and pursuits shortly.
Vehicle import racket cost Govt. billions in lost revenue
The General Secretary of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party Customs Trade Union Association, W.M.R.P. Wijekoon, has written to President Mahinda Rajapaksa, requesting him to launch an investigation into losses amounting to billions of rupees incurred by the government, due to an organized racket on the registration of vehicles after obtaining an endorsement by Sri Lanka Customs (SLC) that the consignment contains imported motorcycles.
(Lanka-e-News-08.Nov.2013, 11.00PM) The Medamulana Rajapakse regime had prepared a novel method to make sure that after the Commonwealth heads of government summit meeting , when the special delegates are leaving , along with them on the sly to send one of its acolytes to a European country , according to reports reaching Lanka e news inside information division.It is planned that this special acolyte who is saddled with a number of responsibilities during the summit , leaves for the European country as soon as the summit is over . This specially picked individual will be arriving in the European country on the 19 th though he has no invitation from that country. His tour is organized in such a way that it is a secret to both Sri Lanka and the foreign country.
As this special individual has had no dealings with that European country , this tour is extraordinarily important and secretive,.
Like the foreign information services , Lanka e news too is scrupulously watching and trailing this mysterious individual. Lanka e news hopes to reveal all details of this individual’s secretive plans and pursuits shortly.
Vehicle import racket cost Govt. billions in lost revenue
BY Chandrasena Marasinghe-Saturday, 09 Nov 2013
The General Secretary of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party Customs Trade Union Association, W.M.R.P. Wijekoon, has written to President Mahinda Rajapaksa, requesting him to launch an investigation into losses amounting to billions of rupees incurred by the government, due to an organized racket on the registration of vehicles after obtaining an endorsement by Sri Lanka Customs (SLC) that the consignment contains imported motorcycles.
According to Wijekoon, motor spare parts of luxury vehicles are imported at different times or all the parts of a vehicle as a whole, and cleared without paying the requisite Customs Duty. Once the vehicle is assembled, it is registered with the Registrar of Motor Vehicles (RMV), fraudulently, with Customs certification as imported motorcycles. He added that officers at the RMV are covertly supporting the fraudulent venture. Documents to register the vehicles as motorcycles, when in fact they had been cars had been submitted for registration at the RMV in the following years and months: December 2008 – CMB 20370; July 2009 – CMB 3721; August 2009 – CMB 1919 and CMB 2921; December 2009 – CMB 5063. As such, five Toyota (petrol) cars imported from Japan had been registered in this manner, in an act of blatant fraud by unscrupulous officers from SLC and the RMV, Wijekoon charged.
He pointed out that due to this fraud, the government had lost a minimum of Rs 3 million as tax from each of the vehicles, and the total loss amounts to Rs 15 million from the five vehicles.
Wijekoon added, there had been similar exposures on several occasions in the past, and he is in possession of a report of the investigations conducted y by Auditor General in this regard. He further said he would forward copies of the report to the President and the Director General of Sri Lanka Customs, Jagath Wijeweera.
He has requested the President to appoint a committee to probe the fraud operation conducted covertly, which he said has been going on for a long period of time, and has also requested that those found guilty should be duly punished.
