Sumanadasa Abeygunawardena too, to turn state witness?

 

Feb 21, 2016

Sumanadasa Abeygunawardena, astrologer for the former president, joined a special media briefing held yesterday (20) by deputy minister Ranjan Ramanayake over the phone and exposed several instances of illegal activities committed by the Rajapaksa regime.

Referring to Maj. Tissa, who is directly accused in the Thajudeen murder and recently identified by the media as a suspect in the Lasantha Wickramatunga killing too, Abeygunawardena said he was not surprised by the allegations and that Tissa has led an unusual lifestyle. He has built a palatial house worth many millions of rupees in front of Obeysekere mansion at Rajagiriya, while Maj. Neville, who has regularly accompanied the ex-president, has a large house in Hambantota, adding that all the auspicious times for these houses were done by him.

 

Basil Rajapaksa has a big mansion at a property of not less than 15 acres, but its nominal owner is Tiru Nadesan, husband of Nirupama Rajapaksa, Abeygunawardena revealed.

 

In order to ascertain another revelation by Abeygunawardena, Ramanayake got the chairman of Lankaputra Bank on line live, and said assets of this bank, started in 2006, were worth Rs. eight billion, and on Gamini Senarath’s orders, Rs. five billion had been distributed to friends of the Rajapaksa family, while Rs. two billion had been written off as bad debt.

 

The deputy minister thanked Abeygunawardena for giving the auspicious time for the presidential election two years ago, and the latter said he was prepared in the future too, to reveal what he knows.