5 m dollar commission to petroleum minister!

Monday, 12 January 2015 

Petroleum minister, attorney Anura Priyadarshana Yapa, has been paid a five million dollar commission by Swiss-Singapore Overseas Enterprises for having extended its crude importation contract for the next three years, after it had lapsed recently.

The minister was paid the commission in Singapore last week.

Yapa had spent October 03, 04 and 05 in Singapore at this company’s expense, and returned home on October 06. He has deposited the money in a bank in Singapore.

Lawyer Yapa was the chairman of the committee that inquired into the impeachment motion moved by the Rajapaksa regime against 43rd chief justice, Dr. Shirani Bandaranayake. The president had promised him, then the minister of environment, ‘a ministerial position that can earn him money’ for having sacked the CJ illegally and unethically. Accordingly, at the last cabinet reshuffle he was appointed the petroleum minister.

The pictures below show minister Yapa and the brokers holding initial talks with representatives of the company in Dubai.