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Colombo (News 1st); The Sri Lankan Government is yet to produce anyone responsible for the 2019 April 21st Attacks, while the US has already charged three people for the terror attacks, alleged Samagi Jana Balavegaya Parliamentarian Eran Wickramaratne.
Former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and Former Defence State Minister Ruwan Wijewardena are not connected to these attacks, said the MP adding, however, the government must be held accountable.
He said the present government has a responsibility to ensure those accountable are punished and not limit an action to mere arrests of individuals.
Minister of Public Security Retired Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekara said since the government awaits the report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry appointed to probe the attacks, there would be a delay in filing legal action.
Posted on January 9th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana
Former Directors of Edirisinghe Trust Investments (ETI) Finance Limited, who were arrested yesterday, have been remanded until the 12th of January.
The order was delivered by Colombo Additional Magistrate Ruwan Nelumdeniya when the suspects were produced before courts today (January 09).
Last evening, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) arrested four former Directors of ETI Finance – Nalaka Edirisinghe, Jeewaka Edirisinghe, Anjalee Edirisinghe and Asanka Edirisinghe – acting on the directives issued by Attorney General Dappula de Livera.
The suspects were taken into custody on charges of criminal misappropriation, cheating, money laundering and other offences.
During today’s proceedings, Senior Deputy Solicitor General Haripriya Jayasundara told the court that the ETI Finance has defrauded deposits worth over Rs 13 billion.
The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) on the directive of Attorney General Dappula de Livera arrested four Directors of Edirisinghe Trust Investments (ETI) Finance on charges of Criminal Misappropriation, cheating, money laundering and other offences at ETI Finance yesterday. They are Jeewaka Edirisinghe, Anjali Edirisinghe, Asanka Edirisinghe and Nalaka Edirisinghe,
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Champika Ranawaka
Ignazio Silone is reported to have told Palmiro Togliatti, the Italian Communist Party leader, that “the final struggle will be between the communists and the ex-communists.” It’s not too much to claim that in Sri Lanka the final struggle will be between the nationalists and the ex-nationalists. The Communists claim the ex-Communist has betrayed his conscience. The ex-Communist claims the Communists have betrayed his ideals. In the end the ex-Communist, branded a heretic, turns into a renegade. It happens with nationalists also.
Our ex-nationalist seeks for himself the comfort of the two major parties, and like the ex-Communist who finds himself branded a traitor if he joins the Party of the Right, he finds his credentials questioned if he joins our Party of the Right, the UNP. Tilak Karunaratne did that in 2004. Now the UNP, the Party of the Propertied, has split into two wings, an old and a new. Tilak Karunaratne’s successor is Champika Ranawaka. Two wee