President’s official photographer has misused Rs. 8 million!

 Thursday, 10 July 2014 

The President’s Office is holding a secret inquiry, on the orders of the president, into alleged misuse of Rs. 08 million by his official photographer Sudath Silva, said sources at the President’s Office.

Sudath Silva has collected this money from several Tamil businessmen in Colombo, purportedly to fund the visits by ‘patriotic Sinhalese’ from countries in Europe to Geneva for protests against the proposal against Sri Lanka at the UN human rights council sessions in March.

The president was told about it by several pro-government members of the Tamil diaspora who had met him some days ago. Surprised by their revelation, the president had asked about it from Sudath Silva then and there. But, he has sworn that it was a total falsehood.

Well knowing the character of Sudath Silva, the president has ordered his chief of staff Gamini Senarath to immediately inquire into the matter. According to our sources, Sudath Silva is now personally meeting the Tamil businessmen in question and pleading with them not to give evidence against him, and giving them various promises. The same fate that befell Prasanna Hennayaka, the official photographer of former president Chandrika Kumaratunga, will befall Sudath Silva, said a top official of the Presidential Secretariat.