Bribery commission’s DG to resign? 

Oct 14, 2016

Director general of the Bribery or Corruption Investigation Commission Dilrukshi Dias has decided to relinquish her position, as the topmost executive of the country is having a wrong understanding about the commission, which will create problems for the commission in the future, say sources in the commission.

She is presently on an official visit to Malaysia. She has informed the prime minister and the subject minister about her decision, reports say. Also, heads of the FCID and the CID held a meeting with subject minister Sagala Ratnayake at Temple Trees, where the heads of the two institutions have said that they too, would resign, if the commission DG resigned.

President met Dilrukshi before Thai visit

Before he left the country on a visit to Thailand, president Maithripala Sirisena summoned Dilrukshi Dias and inquired from her about the progress of the investigations. She has answered that there was nothing special to report about. The president also inquired from her about the investigation against former defence secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, to which too, she gave the same reply.

Soon after saying so, the DG got the commission to produce Gotabhaya before courts, which left the president in a temper. It was due to this that the commission came under fire by the president at a meeting at Foundation Institute on October 12, say sources close to him.

Ranil-Mahinda deals exposed

The sources went onto say that there was an understanding between prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and ex-president Mahinda Rajapaksa. When the PM is overseas, this deal continues through minister Sagala Ratnayake, the president has been told by his personal intelligence divisions.

The president used his speech at the Sathviru felicitation ceremony to give a hint that he knew all about it. He was further angered by the FCID’s summoning of his friend and minister A.H.M. Fowzie. When inquired from the sources as to whether this matter could lead to a collapse of the national government, they said there was no room for such a situation, as both the president and the PM were senior politicians with nearly 40 years of experience in politics. The sources here noted Mao Tse Tong’s saying ‘politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed’.