Wele Sudha scandal: Shocking revelations
( January 25, 2015, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) A scandal of huge proportions is set to break as Criminal Investigation Department (CID) detectives continue to question ‘Wele Sudha’, the Sri Lankan drug lord arrested in Pakistan. He is the mastermind of a major drug smuggling ring between the two countries. The man, whom one detective described as Pablo Escobar, the one who ran the Columbian drug mafia until he was tracked down, is now spilling the beans. It is already known that Sudha’s main link with those connected with the previous UPFA Government was a young politician, a rich playboy, who had powerful connections and an equally powerful underworld mafia.
The young politician was so lavish that he gifted Rolex wrist watches to some of the top UPFA politicians. On one occasion, he gave a similar watch and gold bangles to his girlfriend, also a politician then, and wanted them returned when he fell out with her. A leading UPFA personality had to intervene to have them returned and to reach a settlement without recourse to Police.
It has now been revealed that the young politician’s best pal then was a former Police Chief with a spurious track record. If he chose to learn the art of diplomacy after shedding his uniform, the man serving abroad was called in last year to run the law and order machinery. He did the job forgetting the law and causing chaotic disorder.
When the January 8 poll was over, the man flew out of Sri Lanka with his family to a West Asian capital. How he literally vanished is intriguing. He went to the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) with his armed security escort. He told his men that he would return after saying farewells to his wife and daughter.
So the escorts waited and their anxiety grew as hours passed by. Suspecting that all was not well, they made inquiries. They were told that he was two hours into a flight to a West Asian capital. He had given his own men the slip.
Sudha has alleged that at the request of the young politico, known for his gun toting antics against his rivals, he built a luxury house in Kadawatha for the one time top cop. Needless to say it cost millions of rupees. Now, the detectives are probing whether another member of the ex-Police chief’s family, who flew with a diplomatic passport to Dubai regularly was smuggling gems on behalf of a businessman.
The young politico, it was then known, was in the habit of visiting the one time top cop’s residence almost every evening. It is alleged that the former top cop even ordered the arrest of members of rival gangs in the drug trade. More proof of their close association came when the duo travelled together to Russia on a holiday.
According to External Affairs Ministry sources, Wele Sudha who was arrested in Pakistan had been interrogated by the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), that country’s premier intelligence organisation. They had elicited details of the drug smuggling ring that operated between Pakistan and Sri Lanka including the names of the key functionaries.
An Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) and an Inspector flew to Pakistan to escort Sudha to Colombo. They returned on a Mihin Air flight on November 17 from Lahore. Detectives say that they would question the one time top cop currently overseas over the revelations they have recorded.
