Sri Lanka: Bond Book — With Whom Arjun Aloysius Talks (Evidence C352)
The report by the Bond Commission handed over to the Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena a few days ago, then the President decided made the report to the public. Here is an interesting evidence was given by the Mr. Yasanka Jayasinghe of the Police Department.
(January 18, 2018, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Mr. Yasanka Jayasinghe joined the Police Department on 18th March 2013 as a Trainee Sub Inspector. Having completed his training at the Sri Lanka Police Training College in Kalutara, he was posted to the Police Station in Galle. After serving in Galle for only three-days, he was transferred to Matugama and then to the Criminal Investigation Department. He commenced duties in the Criminal Investigation Department on 01st September 2014 and has been serving in that Division in the Police up to now. He is presently attached to the Technical Aid Unit in the CID and is engaged in the forensic examination of Computer devices, which includes the function of extracting data from telephones and other computer devices. Inspector Jayasinghe had undergone training conducted by the Federal Police in Australia on forensic examinations. Having examined computer devices, he had produced electronically generated evidence in cases such as the money laundering case of Mohammed Siam, the case where Saman Kumara alias Wele Suda´ was indicted and the murder case of Seya Sadewwani. He is making use of the devices named AKESO and UFED for his Forensic examinations. It is evident that the reports produced in evidence by him, have been prepared with the use of these technical devices. The Forensic report prepared by this witness on Communication Information Analysis was produced in evidence. The relevant evidence of this witness:
1] Mr. Yasanka Jayasinghe stated that he carried out his forensic examinations relating to the matters that fall within the scope of this Commission of Inquiry and such examinations were performed, in the capacity of an officer attached to the Commission. He had been released from the Criminal Investigation Department for the performance of the aforesaid duties and functions of the Commission. In his evidence he stated that he examined, the data found in the telephone used by Mr. Arjun Aloysius and the material provided by the Service Providers, namely Sri Lanka Telecom PLC, Dialog Axiata PLC, Etisalat Lanka (Pvt) Limited PLC, Bharati Airtel Lanka (Pvt) Limited and Mobitel (Pvt) Limited, for the purpose of preparing his forensic reports. The information submitted by these Service Providers include, the telephone numbers and National Identity Card numbers of the persons to whom those telephone numbers were allocated. He further said that the information he collected was restricted to individual activity reports and to the short messages (SMS) of the relevant subscribers and that it only covers the period from 01st January 2015 to 26th June 2017. He has also annexed a document to his Forensic Report marked ³C360´ and the said annexure, marked 1.2 shows the dates on which the important events had occurred in relation to the issuance of bonds.
2] The witness said that his Forensic Report indicates the call partners of the telephone conversations, the telephone which the call originated from and its directions, if it is an SMS whether it was an outgoing or incoming message, IP address and the identity of the Telecommunication tower to which the telephone calls were connected. According to the witness, this information is limited to the period from January 2015 to June 2017.
3] Mr. Jayasinghe stated that he used the Microsoft Excel software and IBM Analysis Notebook 2.9.0.5 for his examinations. He also said that he used the UFED device to analyze the data. He had subsequently prepared the said telephone Directory containing numbers and the usernames as stated in Paragraph 3.6 in his Report. In that Directory, the names of the persons who testified before the Commission are also mentioned. Accordingly, the time and the names of the persons who were parties to the conversations are found in the aforesaid Report.
4] The witness said that he examined the telephone to which the number 0722463361 is allocated to, which was being used by Mr. Arjuna Mahendran, for his analysis. However, he has not investigated, the conversations made between Mr. Arjuna Mahendran and Mr. Arjun Aloysius because of their close relationship. He further said that there were no conversations between Mr. Arjuna Mahendran and the Primary Dealers registered with the Central Bank other than the personnel from the Primary Dealer company, Perpetual Treasuries Limited. Then he said that he examined the call details between Mr. Arjuna Mahendran and Mr. Kasun Palisena who is the Chief Executive Officer of Perpetual Treasuries Limited and stated that there were 27 telephone conversations and 7 text messages between them. The witness said that in one of the text messages, Mr. Arjuna Mahendran has sent his email address to Mr. Kasun Palisena. The witness has also said that there were telephone conversations between Mr. Arjuna Mahendran and other persons working for Perpetual Treasuries Limited, in addition to Mr. Kasun Palisena.
5] Sub Inspector Jayasinghe also stated that Mr. Arjuna Mahendran had had 30 telephone conversations with Mr. Indika Saman Kumara who is employed at the Central Bank and some of those conversations had been made outside office hours. There were five text messages between these two persons. Mr. Arjuna Mahendran also had 19 conversations with another officer by the name of Padumanapan, working in the Central Bank. He further said that no telephone conversations were found between Mr. Arjuna Mahendran and Mr. Padumanapan until 01st April 2015, during which period Mr. Padumanapan was attached to EPF Department in the Central Bank. However, he stated that there were 129 calls and 4 text messages between Mr. Arjuna Mahendran and Mr. Padumanapan after Mr. Padumanapan was transferred to the Public Debt Department. He also said that Mr. Arjuna Mahendran had telephone conversations with the Hon. Prime Minister, Mr. Ranil Wickremesinghe and the Chairman of the Bank of Ceylon on 27th February 2015, which is the date on which the controversial bond auction was held. The witness has also given evidence, on the conversations made between the period 01st April 2015 and 04thApril 2015.
6] The witness thereafter mentioned the details of the telephone conversations Mr. Arjun Aloysius had with other persons during the period between 23rd October 2016 and 26th January 2017. The reason for this limited period is that the telephone used by Mr. Arjun Aloysius was not produced before the Commission of Inquiry for examination. Therefore, the details of the telephone conversations of Mr. Arjun Aloysius were limited to two and half months.
7] The witness also stated that there were 448 voice communications between Mr. Arjun Aloysius and Mr. Indika Saman Kumara during these two and half months and among those, 131 were Viber calls which had been made between 8 in the night and 8 in the morning. There were 61 conversations between Mr. Arjun Aloysius and Mr. Padumanapan. There were 703 Viber calls between Mr. Aloysius and Mr. Padumanapan.
8] Mr. Jayasinghe also stated that Mr. Arjun Aloysius and a person by the name of Naveen Anuradha who was released from the Central Bank to work at the National Savings Bank, had had 5 telephone conversations and 189 Viber calls. He also said that Mr. Arjun Aloysius had 48 conversations with Mr. Danuka Liyanagamage working at the Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation.
9] Mr. Jayasinghe said that Mr. Kasun Palisena had 38 telephone conversations with Mr. Indika Saman Kumara and; 14 telephone conversations and text messages with Mr. Amal Iroshan, who is the brother of Mr. Indika Saman Kumara. Mr. Kasun Palisena had had 22 calls and SMS messages with Mr. Danuka Liyanagamage.
10] Witness further stated that Mr. Indika Saman Kumara had 38 conversations with the wife of Mr. Arjun Aloysius, Ms. Anjalie Mahendran out of which eight conversations were in the night. Mr. Indika Saman Kumara had had 167 conversations with Mr. Sanjeewa Fernando who is another Director of Perpetual Treasuries Limited. He also had few other conversations with Mr. Ajahn Punchihewa and Mr. Pushya Gunawardena who were the Directors of Perpetual Treasuries Limited.
11] The witness said that Mr. Arjun Aloysius also had 387 telephone connections with Mr. Ravi Karunanayake for the period between 05th February 2015 and 20th June 2017 and there were 37 text messages between these two persons during the period 01st February 2015 to 31st March 2016. The witness also said that Mr. Arjun Aloysius had 320 conversations and 12 text messages with Mrs. Mela Karunanayake, the wife of Mr. Ravi Karunanayake and there were 18 messages with Ms. Onella Karunanayake and Ms. Shenelle Karunanayake who are the daughters of Mr. Ravi Karunanayake.
12] In view of the evidence already led on the Report of the COPE Committee headed by Hon. Sunil Handunnetti, Member of Parliament, details of the telephone conversations between Mr. Arjun Aloysius and the members of the said Committee was elicited in evidence through Sub Inspector Jayasinghe. Accordingly, the witness stated that he did not find any conversations between Mr. Arjun Aloysius and Hon. Handunnetti, Hon. Rauf Hakeem, Hon. Anura Priyadharshana Yapa, Hon. Lakshman Seneviratne, Hon. Wasantha Aluwihare, Hon. Lasantha Alagiyawanna, Hon. Dr. Harsha De Silva, Hon. Ranjan Ramanayake, Hon. Asoka Abeysinghe, Hon. Chandrasiri Gajadheera, Hon. Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Hon. Mahindananda Aluthgamage, Hon. Bimal Rathnayake, Hon. Weerakumara Dissanayake, Hon. Mavei Senadhirajah, Hon. Abdulla Maharoof, Hon. S.Sridharan, Hon. Velukumar, Hon. Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa, Hon. Prasanna Ranatunga, Hon. Gnanamuttu Sirinesion and Hon. M. A. Sumandiran P.C.
The witness then stated that Mr. Arjun Aloysius had 2 conversations with Hon. Dayasiri Jayasekara, 2 conversations with Hon. Ajith Perera, 23 conversations with Hon. Harshana Rajakaruna, 23 conversations with Hon. Hector Appuhamy and 62 conversations with Hon. Sujeewa Senasinghe. This particular report was marked in evidence as “C352”
