Is president honest ?

Witch hunt against Ravi is

to retain executive presidency ?
-By Wimal Dheerasekera

(Lanka-e-News - 10.Aug.2017, 6.45PM)

Following the appointment of Maithripala Sirisena as the president of the
country , a special presidential commission was appointed to investigate the
massive frauds and corruption that raged during the nefarious decade of
Rajapakses, and that Commission received 400 complaints. Investigations into 19
complaints have been completed ,and out of those , reports on five investigations
have been forwarded to president, and 14 more are to be handed over.
The following five reports have been handed over :
1.The siphoning of of Rs. 11.2 million allocated for Negombo zone development
towards presidential elections by former fisheries minister Sarath Gunaratne
without spending a single cent towards development.
2.Fraud relating the Mahiyangana 100 shopping complex
3.Fraud at Independent television network.
4.Fraud at Coconut Research Institute ,Lunuvila
5.Rakna Lanka and Avant Garde Co. scam.
Armed with the report of the presidential commission that investigated the
corruption of Sarath Gunaratne (first report herein) , the Colombo chief
magistrate Lal Ranasinghe was met to file action when Ranasinghe revealed
some salient points.
Criminal cases cannot be filed based on reports of every Institution . Based on the
Criminal procedure code , following an investigation by the CID , the charges
against each accused shall be separately submitted to court , the chief magistrate
highlighted. Accordingly , the group then visited the CID.
The presidential commission which has only a tongue sans teeth
Doesnt what Ranasinghe revealed mean the SPC is a damp squib and its report
just a piece of note paper? because the CID has to once again investigate the
corruption against Sarath Gunaratne. Doesnt that also mean all the public funds
and the time spent on the presidential commission and its investigation constitute
a colossal wastage ? If the investigation was carried out by the CID straight away ,
surely all that money and time dissipated could have been saved , wasnt it ?

When we made our own inquiries into this , we were informed only the police can
file criminal cases in SL, and that right belongs only to Bribery and Corruption
Commission and not to any other Commissions: The Bribery and corruption
Commission investigations are conducted by the police officers attached to it.

The best illustration is the Presidential Commission which only inquires and does
not investigate . To file a criminal case , an investigation is imperative, and it is only
the police which has the ability and methodology for that, specially the CID. This
means the presidential commission sans teeth , and with only a tongue is utter
nonsense.

Though the people are unaware of this truth the president and the buffoons who
established the Commission cannot say they are unaware of that. Despite this
being the stark truth , the president yet established another Commission the
Treasury Bond commission. This commission was constituted of two judges and an
Audit officer.
Unbelievably , the president appointed this commission , even after the COPE
committee comprising of many more members have given their comprehensive
report following their extensive investigations into the controversial issue of
treasury bonds.
The speaker forwarded the report requesting advice from the Attorney General
(AG) - a step never taken in relation to the COPE report. The AG echoed
sentiments similar to what were expressed by aforementioned chief magistrate
Gunaratne in this connection. That is , the COPE report pertaining to treasury
bonds shall be entrusted to the CID and following their investigation a criminal
case can be filed.
Prior to that , the AG advised that a complaint shall be made to the CID in
connection with it . Accordingly the new Central Bank governor lodged a
complaint with the CID , and the COPE report was handed over to the CID.
Presidents agenda.
Maithripala Sirisena the president appointed another Commission sans teeth to
probe into the alleged bond scam while being aware of this glaringly factual
situation and even when legal measures have been initiated.
It is obvious the report of this presidential commission is also one day going to
sufer the fate of the afore-stated report of Sarath Gunaratne .
Why is the president indulging in such tomfoolery wasting precious time and
funds ? The answer is , it is certainly because of politics ? What is his politics ?
That is the politics revealed by him earlier , to establish an SLFP government of
its own. But the tragic side to his comic effort is , instead of cleansing the SLFP
which is full of stench and squalor , and purging it of the crooks and the corrupt
who are in plenty in the party , is foolishly seeking to portray before the masses
that the UNP is a more stinking party of crooks and corrupt , assuming that is a
much easier route to travel along. He is herefore using the presidential Treasury
Bond commission to achieve that goal .
When there is no method to determine the loss , how can there be a loss ?
The Commission probing into the alleged bond scam should have first and
foremost probed whether there was a loss to the government based on this
alleged treasury bond scam , because the bonds were sold and bought by State
Institutions. This is because profits earned by Aloysius the registered intermediary
have been recorded without suppression in the annual accounts reports.
Were there vested interests when the profit was being channeled to a single
individual ? Was this a criminal ofence?And these must be proved in accordance
with the criminal laws. The Auditor General in his testimony directly and clearly
stated there is no methodology in Sri Lanka to detect whether there is a loss to
the government when issuing treasury bonds. He explained that at length.
Therefore if there is no methodology to ascertain there had been a loss, then how
can the loss be decided ? In the circumstances what the Commission ought to do
first is probe how such a thing can be avoided in the future , and establish modes
and methods to detect whether there is a loss to the government when bonds
are issued . Instead of that the Commission is now blindly searching for a black
cat in a dark room. In other words serving the political agenda mentioned earlier
of the president.
Presidents agenda was to publicize that the UNP is more corrupt and stinking
than the SLFP and to finally make Ranil Wickremesinghe the victim , but before
that owing to a woman from somewhere coming on the scene in the treasury
bond scam ,it became possible for the president to make Ravi Karunanayake a
scapegoat despite the fact the Central bank which was central to this issue was
not under Ravis purview.
No matter what efforts are being made to blow this out of proportion , the only
charges leveled against Ravi is his living in the rented house of Aloysius. The cash
involvement is Rs. 10 million . If Ravi really wanted to defraud , he could have
collected that amount without anybodys notice and lived in another house.
Instead he has allowed the Commissions scientific experts and the president to
earn plus points on this . Hence his motive is untainted.
The most curious part of this melodrama is , even before Aloysius has been
found guilty in the alleged bond scam , Ravi has been maligned unmercifully and
condemned to the gallows. Somebody must clarify whether there exists a law
that states , just because a politician was allowed to stay in the house of a
businessman ipso facto makes him/her a criminal. Simply because evidence was
given before the Commission , the media of Mahinda and Maithri have concluded
Ravi has committed an offence.
The sum of Rs. 500 million that Ravi brought
It is well for Maithripala Sirisena and the pro good governance masses recall an
incident: During the first week after Maithripala became the common presidential
candidate following his resignation from the SLFP ,and when he was in a jubilant
mood ,he lamented while being in the opposition that even the leaflets had not
been sent to his electorate .
Truly, during that first week the common candidate did not have money to
spend for the presidential campaign . It was Ravi Karunanayake the
businessman who brought in about Rs. 500 million for the presidential campaign
when it was teetering and tottering without funds. It was part of this money
that were spent for the publicity platforms which the leaders of the civil
organizations mounted and campaigned.
Maithripala who did not inquire then whose money Ravi released , is today
probing into the payment of rents for Ravis house after appointing a commission ;
and based on that is making requests to Ravi to resign while using media channels
close to the president to sling mud at Ravi. None can blame the pro good
governance masses if they describe this attitude as lowly callous behavior and
ungrateful conduct of Maithripala. Shouldnt he think back and ask himself ,
where his crooks and hypocritical cronies were at that time (nowhere around)
who are now rallying around him saying they would raise both hands to chase out
Ravi ?
Is Maithripala honest?
In the circumstances it is being questioned whether president Maithripala
Sirisena is truly honest , anti corrupt and against crimes?
If he is truly so, would he have related the deplorable cyanide story and created
the climate to resign for the Director General of the Bribery Commission at that
time when culprit Gotabaya owing to her was hauled up before courts for the first
time ? Could he have spoken in favor of the criminal members of the forces who
abducted Prageeth Ekneliyagoda in remand custody , and reinstated them in
military service illegally? Would he have used his stooges to file action against
Lanka e news instead of investigating the arson committed on the office of LeN?
Would he have sent a letter of demand claiming Rs. 500 million from Prof. Sarath
Wijesuriya of the movement for just society ? Would he have suppressed the
corruption charges against a most corrupt crook Dilan Perera , and appointed him
as the partys official spokesman in order to sling mud at the UNP and even its
leader around the clock? Would he have made the NGO fraudster his co
ordinating secretary who tried to shoot himself like an underworld criminal on the
main road demanding that the UNP leader shall be chased out? Would he have
given a post to Maithri Gunaratne who hurled stones at Sri kotha , and continued
appointing him when he is changing posts ? Would he have appointed a
notorious Blue brigand crook as a foreign envoy ?
Would he include the name of Chokka malli an SLFP er in his elections
nomination list a few months after becoming president while forgetting the
incident in which Chokka malli killed a UNPer by shooting when the latter was
organizing a rally at Ratnapura during the run up to the presidential elections to
make Sirisena the president ?

The list being too long it cannot be noted herein.

Ravi today , Ranil tomorrow !
In conclusion let me state
We are certainly not against Ravi being punished if he is found guilty under the
laws , but we are certainly against his being crucified and maligned unjustifiably
by vacuous villainous media even before the case is heard. The mud that is slung
by the ungrateful muddy hands of the president against Ravi today even before
Aloysius is proved a culprit , is sure going to sling mud at Ranil tomorrow.
If Ravi resigns today , the next manipulation will be to create circumstances for
Ranil to resign. Thereafter under an SLFP P.M. another government may be
formed.That will necessarily mean , instead of the constitution which aims at
abolition of the executive presidency , a constitution will be formulated to retain
the executive presidency.
Ungrateful Maithripala s dream for a long time is that . This is confirmed by the
words that drop off the unbridled tongue of S.B. It is due to this reason , the
proposals of the SLFP to be made to the constitution formulation committee are
being delayed .Currently the only hindrance is that.
If Maithripala the SLFP stalwart who on 2015-01-08 turned arch enemy of the
Rajapakses can give nominations to the same Rajapakses in Maithripalas list in
July 2015, it is not a matter for surprise if such a Maithripala takes ungrateful
unscrupulous measures to create a new force calling it a third force saying it is
against corruption only to prevent the SLFP breaking into two , or if he again joins
with the Rajapakses whom he earlier viciously and venomously described and
castigated as rogues , rascals and traitors.
Hence, the pro good governance will be well advised to think carefully and
watch cautiously the direction in which the rogue is running shouting rogue ,
rogue . Rajapakses are seeking to sign a no confidence motion not for nothing
when Maithri s blowing the whistle .

In logic man is considered as a talking animal. A political leader who loses his
sense of discrimination ( one who loses his capacity to identify a true friend
from a foe) ; and his sense of shame and gratitude is much worse than an
animal by birth.
By WimalDheerasekera
Translated by Jef.
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